Autism
Music therapy sessions provide familiarity, consistency, structure, and predictability – characteristics that support the learning style of individuals with ASD.
Benefits of Music Therapy for Autism
For clients with autism, music therapy interventions focus on enhancing:
- Social skills
- Communication
- Motor skills
- Sensory regulation
- Transitioning
- Coping with change
- Impulse control
- Emotional wellbeing
- And academic/cognitive functioning
Our music therapists work in partnership with clients, families, and their care teams. Sessions are tailored to the strengths, weaknesses, needs, goals, and music preferences of each individual client.
Music Therapy Session Pricing
The first session for each client is an in-depth assessment. This includes a one-hour session, an overall assessment report & treatment plan. Progress will be matched against beginning assessment and recorded weekly at future sessions.
Cost of first session is $135
Client-centered, interactive music interventions are designed to meet specific goals and improve sensorimotor, emotional, cognitive, communication, and social functioning, while promoting overall health and well-being. Interventions include but are not limited to singing, playing percussion and other instruments, moving to music, lyric analysis, songwriting, improvising, manipulation visual aids, and using music as a motivator for movement, behavior, communication, etc.
Services include a short consultation with the parent/caregiver if needed. In weekly sessions, we work on the goals and objectives stated in the treatment plan and document progress. Written progress reports are sent approximately every 4 months.
50 minute sessions are $85
30 minute sessions are $60