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"MUSIC THERAPY" read below
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Based on considerable research, Baby Fingers is designed to promote family communication while enhancing motivation to speak, increasing IQ, improving vocabulary and literacy skills, decreasing frustration, refining motor coordination and spatial reasoning skills. Sessions year round, offering "mommy & me" sign language, Music for Babies, Parties, Adult ASL, & more. Read details below!
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Music Therapy
Individual and small group music therapy can be scheduled and designed to meet the needs of your child and family, in your space or ours. "Music therapy is the intentional creation and processing of musical experiences by trained therapists to initiate therapeutic relationships with clients, respond to clients' conditions, symptoms and needs, and meet prescribed clinical goals. Music therapy can often achieve results where verbal and cognitive therapies have little effect. Music therapy can also complement other therapies, increasing the overall effectiveness of treatment, because it taps resources in the client that other therapies are unlikely to engage, such as musical intelligence and opportunity for creative self expression." Lora, a board certified & licensed music therapist, specializes in early childhood (birth to age 9) speech/language delays, autistic spectrum disorders, Deaf/hard of hearing, Down's Syndrome, premature infants, and post-partum depression.
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Excerpt from the Washington Post, March 3rd 2009, by Jean Hwang:
When it's bath time for Janna Simpson, her mother sometimes throws together a tune. "Take a bath, take a bath, take a bath," Judy Simpson might chant, luring her daughter into the water.
Janna isn't a toddler, and her mother isn't simply singing along. Janna is a 15-year-old with autism, a speech impairment and a seizure disorder. Music, Judy Simpson says, has been key to getting her to engage in such everyday activities as taking a bath; it's also an alternative to verbal instructions in helping her overcome social and behavioral problems.
Janna, who never developed normal speech, receives formal music therapy at West Virginia's Hedgesville Middle School, where she is enrolled in a classroom for students with autism. Her mother, a former music therapist who is director of government relations at the American Music Therapy Association, based in Silver Spring, continues with that therapeutic approach at home.
NOTE: Our schedules are subject to change. Contact us for class fees and to set up a class visit. If space allows, you can visit a class and join us part way through a session for a pro-rated tuition.
Refund/make-up policy
There is a $35 fee for returned checks. TWO make-up classes can be scheduled with the instructor each session lasting more than 6 weeks; ONE make up class is allowed for shorter sessions. The $25 reg. fee is non-refundable, but waived if you refer a friend who joins us. A 50% refund of tuition may be granted after the first week of class; no refunds thereafter.
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for tuition and fees. We offer discounts for referring a friend and for siblings. Ask for details.
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