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Group Music Therapy for Children with Special Needs
There are a variety of skill sets that the therapists will address when working with your early childhood students, taking into account each student’s various abilities, aptitudes, and interests. Each class, your child will have been exposed to the following age appropriate activities:
Active Movement
Active movement activities are included with every group class. Music Therapy Services, Inc., uses a variety of songs and props to achieve these active movements, which also generate cardiovascular benefits. Through these movements, our therapists strive to teach increased self awareness, increased motor skills, both gross and fine, developing and maintaining muscle coordination, following directions, increased auditory awareness, introducing and teaching academic concepts such as right/left or body parts, directionality, and success and participation within a planned activity.
Teaching Academic Concepts
It has been proven that using music and art as a tool to teach academic concepts increases success rates of memorization. This is because the brain processes these concepts throughout the entire brain, rather than just in one area as with the spoken word. Our therapists use a variety of rhythms, songs, instruments, props and art projects to expose your child to a variety of academic concepts that coincide with their current educational level, such as colors, numbers, months of the year, days of the week, animals, etc.
Practicing Social Interactions
At Music Therapy Services, Inc., we strive to have every student be a contributing member to a successful group class, and also a successful life. Our classes offer a variety of interventions that focus on appropriate social interactions with others and boundaries. Through each class program, your child will have the opportunity to practice such skills as appropriate greetings, appropriate ways to express and validate emotions, social boundaries, importance of a planned schedule, etc.
Achieving and Growing
Music, art and its structure provide a safe, mobile and fun way to practice a variety of life skills. Music Therapy Services, Inc., has a goal for every student to participate to the best of their abilities and feel that they were a contributing member of a group that made success possible. Decision making, social interactions, expressing emotions, academic concepts, body awareness, and muscle coordination are just the beginning of the concepts we can provide to students to ensure their current and future success.
Group Therapy Classes are divided into the following age divisions:
Mondays: 10-10:45am Ages 1-3 Caregivers must be present
Tuesdays: 10-10:45am Ages 4-6
Tuesdays: 1-1:45pm Ages 7-9
Wednesdays: 1-1:45pm Ages 10-12
Thursdays: 10-10:45am Ages 13-15
Thursdays: 1-1:45pm Ages 15 and up
All Classes begin the first session the week of June 20th and run thru July 15t. Second sessions begin the week of July 18th and run thru August 12th.
Cost is $50 per child for the four week session.
Each class is forty-five (45) minutes in length and runs in four week, consecutive sessions. The classes will have a maximum of 6 children in order to ensure proper attention to the individual. Each class will include children of numerous diagnoses, however, we welcome any calls to discuss the needs of your specific child. Please note there are no credits or refunds for classes that are not attended.
Private therapy sessions are also available should the group setting not be ideal for your child.
*Please note a minimum of 3 children is required to hold each group class.
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