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WHO WE ARE
Life Skills, Vocation, Music & Arts
Berkshire Hills Music Academy is a unique college-like program for young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who are looking to expand their social, vocational, and life skills in a music-infused environment.
Questions about BHMA?
Email admissions@berkshirehills.org or submit our inquiry form:
THE VALUE OF MUSIC
Music uniquely stimulates all areas of the brain, promoting significant opportunity for enhanced learning and retention. Our highly trained staff employs the therapeutic value of music to help students, regardless of experience or aptitude, improve and increase:




PHYSICAL ABILITIES
Gross and fine motor skills, spatial awareness, and organized muscle responses
COMMUNICATION
SKILLS
Speech, articulation, and language organization & retrieval
COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING
Focus, attention, and engagement
SOCIAL SKILLS
Teamwork, problem solving, and self-advocacy
STUDENT STORIES
UPCOMING EVENTS
Upcoming Public Performances:
Every Friday: Variety Hour at 2:00pm
December 6th- BHMA Classical Ensemble at South Hadley Public Library from 6:00PM - 7:00 PM
December 9th- BHMA Woodwind Group​s at Springfield Museums’ Dr. Seuss Grinchmas from 1:30-2:30pm
December 10th- The Yarde Tavern in South Hadley from 2:00-5:00pm
December 14th- Art Show from from 5:00-7:00pm
December 15th- Winter Ensemble Concert at BHMA at 6:00pm
December 17th- The Yarde Tavern in South Hadley from 2:00-5:00pm
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