Music Therapy Services

The Groovy Garfoose offers music therapy services from early childhood through end of life care. While we serve many audiences, each session is designed with creativity and compassion to support each person to their fullest potential. Click the links below to learn more about each service we offer

Music Therapy Services

The Groovy Garfoose offers music therapy services from early childhood through end of life care. While we serve many audiences, each session is designed with creativity and compassion to support each person to their fullest potential. Click the links below to learn more about each service we offer

Individual Music Therapy Services

We provide weekly 30, 45 or 60-minute music therapy services to individuals in our studio or your home. We work with children, teens and adults of all abilities and needs including developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, down syndrome, cerebral palsy, fragile x, ADD, ADHD, PDD-NOS, learning delays, cognitive delays, speech delays, vision impairments, hearing impairments and more to address a variety of goal areas including but not limited to:

  • Communication
  • Impulse control
  • Motor planning
  • Socialization
  • Emotional expression

Group Music Therapy Services

We provide group services in our studio or your facility. No matter the group, we are equipped to support the needs of the group members and add value to the menu of programming you offer. Our group services include:

  • 45- 60 minute groups weekly, bi-weekly or monthly
  • Musical themes including LIVE and recorded age-appropriate songs
  • Instrument playing, singing, movement, and cognitive engagement
  • Goal-oriented outcomes like communication development and socialization

IEP Music Therapy Services

Our team of board-certified music therapists are experts in supporting students with music therapy as a related service on their individualized education plan. Music therapy is a viable educational support IEP goals like:

  • Cognitive goals like identifying numbers, colors, and letters
  • Counting, telling time, and calendar concepts
  • Behavioral goals like self-regulation, attention, and focus
  • Communication goals like answering Wh questions
  • Life skills goals like grooming, appropriate manners, and safety

School Services

The Groovy Garfoose provides 30-45 minute group sessions throughout the school year. We believe music therapy should be accessible to every child no matter their ability or need and is a viable support for achieving educational goals like:

  • Following directions
  • Fine and gross motor development
  • Expressing feelings
  • Taking turns
  • Joint attention

Glee Club

Glee Club is an adapted music program custom designed for individuals with disabilities. Our board-certified music therapists collaborate with 7-12 teens and adults over 5 weeks to prepare them for a final performance jam-packed with:

  • Adapted sign language
  • Choreography
  • Instrument playing
  • Singing
  • Teamwork

Summer Camp

We are proud to offer one of the only Creative Arts Camps for special needs teens and adults of all ages and abilities in Northeast Ohio. Our camp team curates original camp curriculum each Summer. Past camp themes have included:

  • Under The Sea
  • Give Your Regards To Broadway Camp
  • Decades Camp
  • Rainbow Camp
  • Movie Camp

Music Makers

This one of kind early childhood music class designed by our founder Bonnie Hayhurst is geared towards young children ages 3-6, their siblings and a caregiver. Each 30-minute class is chock full of LIVE music including original and familiar songs that engage children in:

  • color, number, shape, and letter identification
  • Socializing with other children in a safe and nurturing environment
  • Vocalizing, babbling, talking and singing
  • turn taking and sharing
  • body awareness and motor development
  • hand-eye development

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