ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the idea of able-ness with important lessons from teaching in an inclusion classroom and from the Disabilities Dance Community. DanceAbility facilitates teacher training workshops in several locations around the world every year and hosts numerous across-ability dance workshops and events locally, nationally, and internationally. The chapter describes about DanceAbility and discovers other groups with similar shared dance and art experiences in the community. There are places where art, dance, and dramatic forms of expression are shared by people with and without disabilities. Before Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) supported the rights of people with disabilities to free and equal education, many children with disabilities were isolated and often institutionalized, which kept them apart from not only their families, but also their communities and schools. People-first language is something all of teachers can practice and use to make a difference in their classrooms and communities.
