Arts Educators Group
Arts Educators Group, or AEG for short, is a community-oriented partnership that is committed to making arts training and education affordable and widely accessible. Working with partners such as Los Altos Christian Schools, we provide preschool and elementary school students with music and dance education that would otherwise be unavailable for economic, logistical, legal, or social reasons.
Arts Educators Group is a non-profit partner of The Music Place and offers both individual and group music instruction, music therapy with board-certified music therapists, and special needs music coaching.
Music therapists include: Melanie May Po Acosta
MUSIC THERAPY
The American Music Therapy Association defines Music Therapy: “Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.”
Although a client may learn to sing, read or play music within a music therapy session, the goals of the session are clinical and based on the individual needs of the clients. Based on information gathered by our Music Therapist following an individual Music Therapy assessment session, as well as from the client’s medical diagnoses and or personalized goal plans, such as an IEP, the Music Therapist creates individualized goals that may address a wide variety of clinical needs.
WHY OFFER MUSIC THERAPY?
Because we are committed to value the uniqueness of each child, we have always taught to the needs of the child rather than to the style or ease of the instructor. It is this philosophy that drives us to develop new curricula and to look for new ways to enhance our effectiveness in helping every child feel special regardless of perceived limitations.
We have taught and loved students with hearing and visual impairments, speech and communication delays as well as children struggling with issues affecting their physical, social and emotional development such as depression, hyperactivity, and multiple physical disabilities. Why? Because music unites kids’ hearts, is a universal healer, AND because it is our great delight to help these precious students unwrap the gift of music inside of them.
Music & Dance Classes
The Arts Educators Group is primarily focused on the delivery of Music Therapy for persons with special needs, however we partner with two other organizations to bring Music and Dance to a wide population, The Music Place and Soaring Spirit Dance Studio. Please explore the links for more information:
Contact Us
Phone:
Music Place Main Office: (408) 445-2787
Arts Educators Group Office: (408) 531-6428
Locations:
- 1617 Willowhurst Ave, SJ 95125
- 510 Lawrence Expwy, Svle 94085
- 112 Koch Ln, SJ 95125
- 352 So. Baywood Ave, SJ 95128