Physical Deficits Physical appearance or certain characteristics can be occasionally be a method to distinguish if that someone has DS or not. Yet, not all DS persons look the same. Certain characteristics illustrated by the National Health Service are “below average weight, their palm may have only one crease across, broad hands with short finger, a big space between the first and second toe, a flat back of the head, eyes that slant upwards and outwards, a small mouth with a protruding tongue, a small nose and flat nasal bridge, and reduced muscle tone that results in floppiness.” Plus, those with DS develop at a slower rate in motor skills, than those without DS. This causes infants and children to explore and learn less affecting disturbance
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Marian Chace, is a well known pioneer of Dance Movement Therapy. As a curious dancer, teacher, and choreographer, Marian questioned why it is that people came to dance classes and were not interested or had no intent in being professional. As this questioned lingered, she progressively changed her classes to aim to individuals needs. She taught and choreographed in her own studio in Washington, D.C, but before that she was part of the Denishawn Company in the 1930’s (Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn). Personal self-harmony was what Marian aimed to help her students learn by integration of the body and movement. Mental health professionals at St. Elizabeths Hospital slowly grew to appreciate Marian’s concept and invited her in 1942 to aid solider from World War II, through the use of dance and movement. Eventually she trained many others on her concept and later on operated as the first president of the American Dance Therapy Association from 1966 to 1868 …show more content…
However, DMT is still embedded through the use of dance itself. Dance is a way to express oneself using movement, the body and mind, and one of the basic fundamentals of art. Dance Movement therapy, as stated from the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA), is “the psychotherapeutic use of movement to further the emotional, cognitive, physical and social integration of the individual.” DMT and dance are both beneficial of physical and mental health, stress reduction, mood, muscular strength, coordination, mobility, self-awareness, self-esteem, and a safe space for the expression of feelings. Nevertheless, DMT is qualified more as a type of therapy and intervention that can assess a situation, when dance is seen more as physical activity. Still, dance is enrooted into DMT and used in a positive way to help those in
Marian Chace, is a well known pioneer of Dance Movement Therapy. As a curious dancer, teacher, and choreographer, Marian questioned why it is that people came to dance classes and were not interested or had no intent in being professional. As this questioned lingered, she progressively changed her classes to aim to individuals needs. She taught and choreographed in her own studio in Washington, D.C, but before that she was part of the Denishawn Company in the 1930’s (Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn). Personal self-harmony was what Marian aimed to help her students learn by integration of the body and movement. Mental health professionals at St. Elizabeths Hospital slowly grew to appreciate Marian’s concept and invited her in 1942 to aid solider from World War II, through the use of dance and movement. Eventually she trained many others on her concept and later on operated as the first president of the American Dance Therapy Association from 1966 to 1868 …show more content…
However, DMT is still embedded through the use of dance itself. Dance is a way to express oneself using movement, the body and mind, and one of the basic fundamentals of art. Dance Movement therapy, as stated from the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA), is “the psychotherapeutic use of movement to further the emotional, cognitive, physical and social integration of the individual.” DMT and dance are both beneficial of physical and mental health, stress reduction, mood, muscular strength, coordination, mobility, self-awareness, self-esteem, and a safe space for the expression of feelings. Nevertheless, DMT is qualified more as a type of therapy and intervention that can assess a situation, when dance is seen more as physical activity. Still, dance is enrooted into DMT and used in a positive way to help those in