Easter Seals Greater Houston
Lara Lanphier has extensive experience as a dance instructor and arts educator, currently serving as a Dance Instructor at Easter Seals Greater Houston since 2010, teaching adaptive dance classes for children and adults. In addition, Lara has been a Teaching Artist with Houston Ballet since 2019, focusing on adaptive dance in public schools. As the Director and Owner of Exult Dance since 2018, operations and daytime dance classes for homeschool families are managed. Lara also contributes as a Dance Instructor, Mentor, and Outreach Coordinator at OPEN SKY ARTS COLLECTIVE since 2014, where teaching, choreography, and community outreach are key responsibilities. Previous roles include teaching dance to children at Evelyn Rubenstein JCC of Houston from 2010 to 2015 and ballet to university students at Rice University from 2009 to 2015. Lara holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance with a minor in Psychology and Social Behavior from UC Irvine, earned from 1996 to 2000.
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Easter Seals Greater Houston
Nationally, Easter Seals is the leading non-profit provider of services for individuals with autism, developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, other special needs, and disabled veterans. For more than 68 years, Easter Seals Greater Houston has been offering help, hope and answers to people of all ages with disabilities and their families.Through therapy, training, education and support services, Easter Seals creates life-changing solutions so that people with disabilities can live, learn, work and play in our community. Founded in Houston in 1947, Easter Seals Greater Houston provides a variety of needed services to individuals of all ages with all types of disabilities and their families in the five counties surrounding the Houston area. They are the only organization in the greater Houston area providing comprehensive services to individuals with all types of disabilities and their families. Originally called the Cerebral Palsy Treatment Center, the organization was started to provide services to individuals with disabilities living in Houston and Harris County. The Center served as a school and as a therapeutic service center over the years, and was briefly called the Children's Center for Developmental Therapy. In 1989, the organization changed its name once again and greatly expanded and reorganized it's services to meet the needs of its clientele. Today as Easter Seals Greater Houston, the organization provides multiple outstanding service programs (Adult Program, Camps & Case Management, BridgingApps, Social Motion Skills, The Caroline School, ECI Infant Program, Housing Initiative, High School / High Tech, Respite Services, Toy / Tech, the Assistive Technology Lab, Transition Services, and Veterans Services) to children and adults with all types of disabilities and their families.