In this article, the author focuses on secondary students with cognitive or intellectual disabilities. She discusses that these students can be successfully included into the classroom community if schools can provide the appropriate tools such literacy in the arts. Here, she cites the number of reasons why arts can meet the varied needs and abilities of students with disabilities. She also presents a study she initiated titled "The Story Project." This project involved twelve adolescents with a variety of disabilities, including Down syndrome, autism, and Asperger's syndrome. The purpose of this study was to make these teenagers convey and interpret themselves through art making.