Ability Awareness

Our mixed age All Ability Awareness Music Class is focused on educating children, teens, and adults, beginning at age 5, about ALL Abilities through music, including an introduction to:

• Intellectual Disabilities
• Special Needs
• Physical Disabilities
• Neurological Disorders
• Blindness
• Hearing Loss
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Disease
• Cancer
• Mental Health Diagnosis

Our class provides a safe environment where participants can ask questions, explore challenges together, and learn about their similarities as well as differences in order to aid them in a better of understanding of themselves and the world around them.

Our goals include:

• Increased Awareness of All Abilities and Disabilities
• Increased Self-Confidence
• Increased Social, Capital, and Peer Support
• Inclusion Education
• Community Integration

We incorporate music, singing, crafts, technology, debriefing, and more!

Eligibility Requirements:

All students must be able to remain within the bounds of a group setting for a minimum of 1 hour or must have aide, parent, and/or legal guardian present to accompany the child as needed. Children must be able to go to the bathroom themselves, be toilet trained, or have an aide, parent, and/or legal guardian with them to help assist in the bathroom. Community Health and Wellness, LLC will not provide an aide for participants. Aides/parents may attend the classes at no additional charge.