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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
June 10th- SHINE performing at Cultural Chaos in Easthampton at 1:40pm
June 11th- Capabilities and Sound Squad, Granby Charter Days 12:00pm – 2:00pm
June 16th- BHMA musicians and dancers performing at Immaculate Heart of Mary
Church in Granby at 6:30pm
August 31st- Capabilities and Sound Squad, South Hadley Summer Concert Series
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