Anita Manley

Creative Drama, Educator

Anita Manley taught at The Ohio State University and worked as a speech and language pathologist with the Columbus City Schools. She conducted workshops, both locally and nationally, on process drama in culturally diverse classrooms and has a particular interest in promoting communicative competence through the arts. Anita co-edited/co-wrote "Dreamseekers: Creative Approaches to the African-American Heritage" (1997) with Cecily O'Neill. Dr. Manley's dissertation (which Cecily O'Neill was on the committee for) was titled, "Unlocking communicative competence in classrooms for students with hearing impairment: Traditional discourse versus process drama discourse". You can locate it under: Manley, Anita Odell.   The Ohio State University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  1995.