Using the Communicative Power of Movement
with Young Children
December 2006

Presented by Suzi Tortora, Ed.D., ADTR, CMA

Dr. Tortora is the founder and director of Dancing Dialogue: Healing & Expressive Arts - A center for movement, music, and dance-based arts that support healing and self-expression, in Cold Spring and NYC. Among her many roles and activities, she instructs parent-infant/toddler classes, and is the author of The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children.

Learning Outcomes:

• Participants will be able to:
• Describe the role of nonverbal and movement-based play experiences
  in all aspects of development
• Describe how the nonverbal component of multi-sensory experience
  influences the attachment relationship
• List specific tools for children with issues in
  communication/relating and motor delays
• Describe how to add movement and music activities with
  families and in community settings.