Kristen Tillona, Director of Admissions and Karen Carreira, Director of Music and Vocational programs, Berkshire Hills Music Academy, MA, discussed the powerful impact of music therapy for special needs youth with Lon Woodbury on L.A. Talk Radio. They explained how music can be used as the glue for a therapeutic program helping young people with problems learn to have good social relationships, build self-confidence, and develop leadership.
Background
Kristen Tillona, Director of Admissions and Marketing, has spent eleven years in private schools working in admissions, advertising, marketing, and teaching. She obtained her B.S. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Kristen is a French horn and trumpet player.
Karen Carreira, Director of Music and Vocational Programs, is a board-certified music therapist, accredited psychological health clinician, and expert singer. She obtained her BA from Wheaton College in Norton, MA, and her MA from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.
Berkshire Hills Music Academy (BHMA) is a school that meets the needs of students with a wide variety of disabilities by using music to engage many areas of the brain to improve motivation and attention. The forty-acre campus is located in the foothills of Western Massachusetts. Students learn good work habits through field work in human service settings under the supervision of a highly qualified staff.
Music Therapy For Special Needs Youth Helps Educate Them In An Assortment Of Life Skills
During the radio interview, Lon asked his two visitors exactly how music therapy for special needs youth worked and why it has helped create a massive improvement in their students, from the ages of 18 and up. Usually, there have been as many as 32 students signed up with the institution at any one time.
The guests said that registration is based on only admitting those children that have an innate love of music, either as listeners or performers. It was this enthusiasm for music that released their latent abilities and helped them come to express themselves much more fully both socially and academically.
Whether the students are polished performers or just want to learn to play an instrument, they have a natural motivation to learn the necessary skills to become independent adults while doing something they love. Their love of music facilitates an interest in learning a variety of non-music skills.
As students improve their life skills through popular music courses, practices, rehearsals, and performances, they experience much better self-discipline and focus, greater motivation and self-assurance, and begin to appreciate discovering how to learn.
Music is a universal language and helps improve communications skills. Rhythm is associated with the learning process, and the creative use of music is used to pace many life skills, including social and work skills.
Inevitably, confidence in their own musical ability helps them to come to be confident in other areas of their lives. For instance, students have developed the confidence to open up their own checking accounts. Toward the close of the discussion, the visitors detailed some amazing examples of pupils who had actually become extremely functional through the use of musical therapy. Music therapy for special needs youth works remarkably well in assisting kids discover their self-esteem and discovers useful life skills, too.
Background
Kristen Tillona, Director of Admissions and Marketing, has spent eleven years in private schools working in admissions, advertising, marketing, and teaching. She obtained her B.S. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Kristen is a French horn and trumpet player.
Karen Carreira, Director of Music and Vocational Programs, is a board-certified music therapist, accredited psychological health clinician, and expert singer. She obtained her BA from Wheaton College in Norton, MA, and her MA from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.
Berkshire Hills Music Academy (BHMA) is a school that meets the needs of students with a wide variety of disabilities by using music to engage many areas of the brain to improve motivation and attention. The forty-acre campus is located in the foothills of Western Massachusetts. Students learn good work habits through field work in human service settings under the supervision of a highly qualified staff.
Music Therapy For Special Needs Youth Helps Educate Them In An Assortment Of Life Skills
During the radio interview, Lon asked his two visitors exactly how music therapy for special needs youth worked and why it has helped create a massive improvement in their students, from the ages of 18 and up. Usually, there have been as many as 32 students signed up with the institution at any one time.
The guests said that registration is based on only admitting those children that have an innate love of music, either as listeners or performers. It was this enthusiasm for music that released their latent abilities and helped them come to express themselves much more fully both socially and academically.
Whether the students are polished performers or just want to learn to play an instrument, they have a natural motivation to learn the necessary skills to become independent adults while doing something they love. Their love of music facilitates an interest in learning a variety of non-music skills.
As students improve their life skills through popular music courses, practices, rehearsals, and performances, they experience much better self-discipline and focus, greater motivation and self-assurance, and begin to appreciate discovering how to learn.
Music is a universal language and helps improve communications skills. Rhythm is associated with the learning process, and the creative use of music is used to pace many life skills, including social and work skills.
Inevitably, confidence in their own musical ability helps them to come to be confident in other areas of their lives. For instance, students have developed the confidence to open up their own checking accounts. Toward the close of the discussion, the visitors detailed some amazing examples of pupils who had actually become extremely functional through the use of musical therapy. Music therapy for special needs youth works remarkably well in assisting kids discover their self-esteem and discovers useful life skills, too.
About the Author:
Lon Woodbury, the founder of Struggling Teens, has recorded the entire interview on his weekly L.A. Talk Radio show for people to listen to at their convenience.
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