Our unique camp features the experience of two professionals – music therapy and speech therapy.  This summer program is perfect for emerging communicators, using pictures, devices and verbal approximations in a non-threatening environment filled with music.  Your child will sing, dance and play instruments while working on communication skills of requesting items, choosing from 2-3 items and participating in a music ensemble.  

This camp is appropriate for children who have special needs.  Check out this summer camp in action here.

Music in Color camp offers students a chance to engage together through structured musical ensembles and learn how to play multiple instruments through matching colors on the instrument and in music notation with the guitar, piano, Boomwhackers, handbells and tone chimes. We also include sensory integration and sensory regulation with movement manipulatives and sensory items. 

 This camp is appropriate for campers who have special needs. Check out this summer camp in action here at 0:42.

Performing Arts & Social Skills Camp offers children a chance to engage together socially through structured musical experiences. Students engage in fine arts experiences of songwriting, musical ensembles, dancing and drama exercises with a focus on social skills opportunities of taking turns and making friends. 

This inclusion camp is appropriate for students who have special needs ("adapted") and those neurotypically developing ("peer models").   Check out this summer camp in action here at 3:30.

Does your child love to dance and sing?  Our inclusive Showstopper Camp teaches musical theater skills of singing, dancing and drama in a creative environment with peers of all abilities.  Each day, we focus on a different musical theater show and perform a showcase of songs on Friday. 

This inclusion camp is appropriate for campers who have special needs ("adapted") and those neurotypically developing ("peer models").  Check out this summer camp in action here at 2:56.

Our inclusive, Adult Showstopper Camp teaches the performing arts skills of singing, dancing and drama in a creative environment with peers of all abilities.  Each week, we focus on a different musical theater show that culminates in a performance on the last day.  Each week, we focus on vocal warmups, physical warmups, learning a song, integrating dance movements, character/team building and creative expression interventions.  Adaptations that are considered when working with adults with developmental disabilities include sensory integration, multiple models of learning (visual, modeling, verbal) and integrating multiple ways of participating (communication & physical adaptations) through positive reinforcement and presuming each individuals' intellect.  North Pointe Ballet organizes our paid, adult peer models (consisting of professional dancers and dance teachers) for each adult registered.  To see it in action, check out last year's performance: https://vimeo.com/738122562/371b345fe3

Adaptive music lessons focus on musical goals. Beginning adaptive music lessons with a music therapist can often be the first step a student needs to successfully start a lifetime of musical learning. The purpose of adaptive music lessons is to provide additional support to increase musical skills until traditional music lessons can be successful.  We offer adapted music lessons in piano, voice, guitar and ukulele.  Click here for a video of this program. 

The Learning Groove program is a developmental music & movement class for children ages 1-5.  TLG's mission is to empower children to reach their full musical, academic and creative potential. This program was created by Eric Litwin, author of the Pete The Cat picture books and special needs educator and is an inclusion class at our North Royalton.

The ultimate goal of our adaptive dance program is to mainstream our dancers into a traditional dance class.  The benefit to these classes is the low teacher to student ratio.  Skills taught in these classes are the same as a typical dance class, but are tailored to each dancer’s unique needs and abilities in order to provide the most successful learning environment.

The Learning Groove Music Class is a developmental music & movement class designed to empower children to reach their full musical, academic and creative potential.  This class will be offered on Monday or Thursday from 12:00-12:30 for the 2023-24 school year, divided into two 10-week semesters (Fall and Winter).