Magician Kevin Spencer visited Texarkana Regional Arts Center Thursday to inspire area teachers with tricks to help them interact with their special ed students.

“We have a tendency when we work with a certain group of people to look at them one way,” Spencer said. “Let’s see if we can tap into some unknown creativity with some of the children you are already dealing with.”

Spencer is a proponent of Healing Magic, a carefully designed, systematic approach to the therapeutic use of simple magic tricks in physical and psychosocial rehabilitation that is also being used i...