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arts & travel Taking Centre Stage Rebecca enrolled to help improve Ignition Theatre and Melbourne Polytechnic have come part of the course, providing students aimed specifically at people with disabilities. The course is open industry. “Students do individual, her communication skills. At the start of the course, she says “I felt shy” but now she is “developing better communication because people can understand me and I can talk more”. Her classmate Ben agrees that the course has helped his communication and confidence. Industry placement is also a big together to offer Australia’s only Certificate 1 course in theatre with real life experience in the theatre to school leavers and mature age students who have a love for paired and group placements,” theatre and individual learning needs or disabilities. Anthea Skinner spoke to the program’s coordinator, Le