Infusing Self-Advocacy Into Physical Education and Health Education

Ruth Childs MFA has been at the College of Brockport Department of Theatre and Music Studies since 2001.Her teaching specialties include public speaking, acting, voice and speech, improv, and the politics of theatre. In addition, she is certified to teach Fitzmaurice Voicework.Ruth has directed and acted in multiple productions at Brockport and beyond.Recent projects include 25thAnnual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Urinetown, Prelude to a Kiss, andWonder of the World.She often works in voiceover, as well as a voice and dialect coach. She is a public speaking consultant as well as a specialist in teaching self-advocacy.She directs the self-advocacy program at Camp Abilities each summer.Ruth served as regional chair of the National Playwriting Program for Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and has been a respondent and reader for national and regional playwriting awards.She was awarded the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Gold Medallion.