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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.
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
May
19: Spring Ensemble Concert
21: Graduation
22-28: Day Program Closed
29: Memorial Day- No day program
30: Summer Semester Begins
Upcoming Gigs:
Variety Hour: Every Friday at 2:00pm
March 31st: Jazz Ensemble and others at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church 6:30pm
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