Twice a week, a registered music therapist engages our students through music. Music is a powerful teaching modality that is highly accessible for individuals with physical and cognitive challenges. Because music impacts physiological functioning on a variety of levels, it is an effective way to stimulate movement and help students become more alert, engaged, and excited about learning.

Research findings from the fields of music therapy and special education support the positive effects of music as a therapeutic tool for individuals with multiple disabilities. Documented results include increases in verbal responding, decreases in stereotyped behavior, learning of anticipatory, imitative, and initiating behaviors, improvements in purposeful hand use, improved visual attention, and greater activation of augmentative devices.