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Overcoming Disabilities and the Role of Arts in Education

By Charles W. Bindig, Ed.D.

Arts Educators consistently find themselves on the defensive when it comes to justifying the existence of arts education in the schools, and I was reminded of this issue during a recent visit to the P. Buckley Moss Gallery in Waynesboro, Virginia. I have always admired her work, but was surprised to learn from her biography that the artist was dyslexic, and had been unable to read in her early years as a student.