NDA's courses are designed in 8 levels to make sure your child is well-rounded with all aspects in performance arts. Especially in public speaking, body language and acting.
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NELVIN DRAMA ACADEMY
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ABA Integrated Drama program
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Drama is a great way for kids who are diagnosed with ADHD or Autism to practice social skills, emotional regulation and most important, theory of mind. Through role playing, teamwork and social interactions, these kids develop a broader emotional and social perspective of the world. Directed by Nathan Tsan, a BCBA (Board Certified Behaviour Analyst) from Sunrise Behaviour Centre and Nelvin Law (Master of Teaching), an OCT certified drama teacher, this conjoint program is a powerful intergration of when drama meets therapy.
After an initial interview with the parents and the child, your child will be intergrated in a mix class with neuro-typical and neuro-divergent students, whose developmental stage are at a similar level. The goal of the integration is for students with ADHD/Autism to model behaviours from the neuro-typical students while being able to participate in regular drama activities such as script reading, partner acting, teamwork, collective creation, rehearsing a play and performance. At the end of the course, your child will be able to step on the stage and perform an entire play with all of the students while parents and friends come support them.
Even though we are the first in Toronto to make such a bold move, we hope that this program can change the ways neuro-divergent students see the world and the ways they behave.
Our students are also on major Canadian TV networks!
WHO ARE WE?
Class features
No one is left behind
Just like the difference between going to a small town school and a big city school, we only run small class which gives us a chance to connect with student and their parents closely. A lot parents prefer our programs because how much more attention their kids are getting in our small classes. Because of that, parents feel comfortable reaching out anytime to follow up the progress of their kid. Our classes usually range between 4 to 9 kids.
SMALL CLASS SIZE
All-in-one
All of our courses rehearse a play over the span of 17 weeks. They are trained on speaking skills, body language and acting during the classes. Not only do we train them on drama skills, but we also focus highly on developing their social skills and emotional regulation. These two go hand in hand to build their confidence for a better and brighter future.
UNIQUE TRAINING
Direct communication
Feedback is the most important step in learning. In NDA, you can be sure that students and parents will receive individual feedbacks on their drama skills, teamwork, confidence and social skills.
Every course at NDA is guaranteed to provide students 2 report cards (midway and final) on their growth. Students and parents will receive specific advices on how to get rid of a bad habit or to improve on a performance technique as well as any challenges they encounter in building their confidence.
Individual feedback
collective creation
no small character
collective creation
During our rehearsal process, we create the play/performance together with the kids. We don't just assign characters to kids based on a purchased script, we re-invent the story and re-create the script with the kids. Which means the performance they put on at the end is 100% original and written by the kids, isn't that incredible? In the drama world, this process is called collective creation.
In the beginning of each term, we take inspiration from the original story of a movie/play and then challenge students to re-create the characters, actions and dialogues of each scene. Through improvisation and games, students test out which ideas work and which don't. Meanwhile, the drama teacher records down all the dialogues and movements that really worked, and those eventually become the actual “lines” of the script. The benefit of this creation process is that every single kid will get to decide what character they want to act and how many lines they want. It's never the "perfect casting" we are looking for, but it's seeing kids motivated to perform and express themselves confidently with pride! You will never see a kid acting as a rock in the background with 1 or 2 lines (unless they chose to!!).
In Nelvin Drama Academy, we let the students be the leaders of their learning, and we encourage them to expand their creativity through teamwork and taking risks on the stage. We believe that everyone’s idea is valuable and that is why we let the students create the performance, rather than giving them a script.
WHY IS DRAMA IMPORTANT?
"...theatre is the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” ― Oscar Wilde
Every child should take drama, it is a stepping stone to a child's success. Drama is in itself a necessity to a child's personal growth. As drama is filled with imaginations and creativities, children are constantly exposed to new social environments to which they have to find their own ways to adapt. It is through these challenges, kids who learn drama will develop skills in communication, creative thinking, public speaking, socializing and leadership.
Knowing how to perform on stage will help them how to perform well in life.
WHO IS NELVIN?
Director at Nelvin Drama Academy
Nelvin Law is the Director at Nelvin Drama Academy and NDAgency. He graduated with a double major honor degree in Acting and French Studies at York University. For 2 years, he worked as a traffic and weather reporter at the local Fairchild Radio Station. He is also a Master graduate at OISE (U of T) and is an Ontario Certified Teacher. In the past years, he has directed theatre shows such as Alice in Wonderland (NDA) and co-directed Grinch The Musical (The Singing School). Recently, he has brought his drama program to local elementary schools such as Central Park Public School to promote drama and performance within YRDSB.
He also runs a youth talent agency called NDAgency, representing kid actors. His actors have appeared on CBC Kids, TVO Kids, Apple TV and short films.
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(+1) 647-408-4108
Unit 5, 90 Esna Park Drive, Markham
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