Tarzana, 5 Phone: 818 723-6924
Email: bonnie@balletforallkids.com
Internet: http://www.balletforallkids.com
Description:

Ballet For All Kids’ aim is to teach children of all abilities and disabilities classical ballet. 

Ballet For All Kids believes that every child has strengths that can be used as a springboard to learn new skills and enhance each child’s personal sense of accomplishment.  To this end, The Schlachte Method uses a wide variety of teaching methods to accommodate all styles of learning including: visual learning, auditory learning, vestibular learning, and emotional intelligence.

14245 Ventura Blvd
Sherman Oaks, 5 Phone: (818) 426-1181
Internet: http://www.mediaenrichment.com
Description:

Media Enrichment Academy in Sherman Oaks is quickly becoming known in the community as a place where children with learning disabilities including Autism Spectrum Disorders are achieving the previously unimaginable.   The Academy provides unique after school and weekend classes that tap into children's natural affinity for technology and visual media.  At the Academy, children are able to think and express themselves by creating animation, claymation, short movies, video games, and their own web pages.  Media Enrichment Academy’s classes have earned rave reviews from students and parents alike. 

United Cerebral Palsy 6430 Independence Ave,
Woodland Hills, 5 91367
Phone: 818 782 22 11 ext 605
Email: okaraolis@ucpla.org
Description:

UCPLAy Project offers unique, child driven workshops and artistic experiences for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. While the projects will take many forms, a silent movie, a play, a puppet show, a circus or a picture book the heart of work remains the same. To give children a place to develop friendships, their expression and beleif in their own abilities. 

CRE Outreach
11777 San Vicente Blvd., Suite 502
Los Angeles , 5 90049
Phone: (310)428-4696
Email: cre@cretheatre.com
Internet: http://www.creoutreach.org
Description: From learning their lines through tape recordings to choreographed blocking, members of Changing Perceptions show the public anything is possible. In the daily struggles facing the visually impaired, this program offers an opportunity for participants to express themselves and use their creativity to rise above their disability. Changing Perceptions currently creates and performs 2-3 original plays per year.

8740 Washington Blvd
Culver City , 5 90008
Phone: (310) 204-3300
Email: hrecf@ecf.net
Internet: http://www.ecf.net
Description: One program offered by The Exceptional Children's Foundation is the Art Center. Established in 1968, the Art Center has provided program participants with professional art training, studio facilities and a nurturing artistic environment. The Center also offers instruction in independent living skills, recreation and adult education. Participants range in age from 18 to 65.  Over the years, the Art Center program has become nationally recognized for leadership in demonstrating that individuals with developmental disabilities have the ability to produce fine art.

4911 Overland Ave.
Culver City, 5 90230
Phone: (310) 838-5274
Fax: (310) 838-5379
Email: info@lagoal.org
Internet: http://www.lagoal.org
Description: LA Goal is a local non-profit organization founded in 1969, which serves adults with developmental disabilities. LA Goal programs include counseling, employment training, physical fitness and training in social skills and interaction for more than 100 adults, as well as practical/emotional support for their families. The objective of LA Goal programs is to empower each individual to reach his or her fullest potential.

Verdugo Jobs Center
1255 S. Central Ave.
Glendale, 5 91204
Phone: (818) 409-0448
Fax: (818) 242-4076
Email: gloria.castaneda@edd.ca.gov
Internet: http://www.edd.ca.gov/Jobs_and_Training/Media_Access_Office.htm
Description: The Media Access Office provides a liaison between performers with disabilities and the entertainment and media industry. They are pioneer in public and private partnership. The office provides numerous services to the community, enabling media products to be produced and individuals to succeed at levels worthy of recognition by the Media Access Awards. The Media Access Office has over 900 actors and media professionals with disabilities on file.

2119 E. Madison Ave.
El Cajon, 5 92019
Phone: (619) 593-2205
Fax: (619) 593-2208
Email: sophiesgallery@stmsc.org
Internet: http://www.stmsc.org
Description: Founded in 1966, SMSC offers comprehensive programs that serve developmentally disabled adults. Our focus is on functional skills required for self advocacy, community integration, employment and self care. Sophie’s Art Gallery, a program of St. Madeleine Sophie’s Center serves 150 adults with developmental disabilities. Sophie’s was designed as a partnership of artists, gallery, and community. As such, student’s art is exhibited in the community at local business, high schools, libraries, art shows and events. Developing these partnerships represents an important commitment to our students; futures and an important investment in our communities.

2520 S. West View Street
Los Angeles, 5 90016
Phone: (323) 734-1164
Fax: (213) 485-1610
Email: joyce.maddox@lacity.org
Description: The William Grant Still Arts Center offers special art programs for individuals with disabilities in the performing arts, visual arts, museum tours, and music, photography. Services are accessible to individuals with physical disabilities, and seniors. The center offers festivals and exhibitions where both disabled and non-disabled artists perform.

8033 W Sunset Blvd. #221
Los Angeles, 5 90046
Phone: (323) 874-0481
Fax: (323) 851-2078
Email: ida@bethunedance.org
Internet: http://www.bethunetheatredanse.org
Description: Founded in 1979, Bethune Theatredanse is a dance performance company that blends elements of dance, special effects, fine art, music and video to create a unique theatrical experience. Stories from film, television, artworks and literature are adapted from the fusion of ballet and modern dance. Dance outreach is a training and performance program in movement and dance for individuals with and disabilities. Dance Outreach is an acclaimed education and performance program providing disabled children an opportunity to affirm their capabilities by participating in the world movement and dance.

5112 Lankershim Blvd.
North Hollywood, 5 91601
Phone: (818) 762-2998
Fax: (818) 762 - 2981
Email: info@deafwest.org
Internet: http://www.deafwest.org
Description: Deaf West Theatre, Inc., was founded in 1991 to directly improve and enrich the cultural lives of the 1.2 million deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who live in the Los Angeles area. DWT provides exposure and access to professional theatre, filling a void for deaf artists and audiences. Serving the cultural, educational, social and employment needs of its constituents, DWT is an institution for the discovery and exploration of artists' identities and stature as artists. Through the medium of Sign Language Theatre, a legacy of deaf culture is created, shared, and preserved. Presenting adaptations of classics, contemporary and original works, DWT is dedicated to the production of theatre of the highest artistic quality, which nurtures and promotes the talents of its actors, writers, directors and designers. DWT productions are presented in American Sign Language with simultaneous translation in English, providing for all an enhanced theatrical experience for all.

P.O. Box 69913
West Hollywood, 5 90069-0913
Phone: (310) 659-6744
Fax: (310) 659-6644
Email: oppenheimz@aol.com
Internet: http://www.firehousetheatercompany.org
Description: The Firehouse Theatre Company both produces and assists in creating innovative, inclusive, theatrical, musical, and visual arts events. They work as an advocate for artists and audiences with physical or sensory disabilities.

P.O. Box 40631
Pasadena, 5 91114
Phone: (626) 399-5789
Email: highspiritsdance@mac.com
Internet: http://www.ymcala.org/Branch/Webpage.aspx?ENT=64&ID=2240
Description: High Spirits Dance Program is for children and youth with Developmental Disabilities. They work with the mind-body connection, developing rhythm, strength, balance and coordination. They promote both "process" and "product" through weekly classes, rehearsals, and community performances. Lynnette Adams, MA Interdisciplinary Arts Education with a BA in Communications/Theatre has been working for the past twenty years teaching movement/dance, drama, art, music, and video. Working with both children and persons of all abilities, she has used the arts as a learning tool, and has created original works in various art forms that have a "Teaching Tolerance" theme.

438 South Market Street
Inglewood, 5 90301
Phone: (310) 674-1346
Fax: (310) 674-1349
Email: psawstaff@earthlink.net
Internet: http://www.pastudiowest.com
Description: Performing Arts Studio West provides an environment where adults with developmental disabilities can enhance self-esteem, social skills, and vocational skills through participation in a performing arts curriculum, professionally staged productions and a vocational training component. All classes are taught by entertainment industry professionals. This setting brings together creative actors, singers, musicians and technical personnel - with and without disabilities - combining their talents to produce quality, original entertainment. In the past three years PASW performers have been cast in over 400 roles in film, television, commercial, music video, audio book and theater productions.

P.O. Box 1452
Culver City, 5 90232
Phone: (310) 836-2961
Email: triumviratepi@earthlink.net
Internet: http://www.tri-pi.org
Description: Triumvirate Pi Theatre Company is a nonprofit playwrights collective and producing organization which seeks to bring together artists and audiences from all of LA's diverse communities to create and experience provocative live theatre that encourages understanding and breaks down perceived barriers of race, gender, and disability.