Music Therapy/Special Needs Lessons Available for All Ages in Burbank, Glendale, Hollywood & LA

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(AGES FIVE AND UP)
Why take Music Therapy Lessons at Los Angeles Music Teachers in Burbank?
Online Special Needs Music Lessons Burbank, CA

Ricardo Hurtado, owner and founder of La Music Therapy, is a Board Certified and Licensed Music Therapist; graduated from the University of Georgia with a BA in music therapy.

Ricardo has been teaching music to students of all ages for more than 25 years. Ricardo specializes in providing music instructions for special needs students.

Along with the director of the music therapy department at the University of Georgia, Ricardo conducted a research investigation on the benefits that music education can have in children. 

Furthermore, Ricardo, was invited by the Interdisciplinary Society of Quantitative Research in Music and Medicine to present his research’s findings at its “Music Meets Medicine Conference 2019”. Ricardo's study will be published and available on the ISQRMM journal and website this year. 

Ricardo is also the author of The Cyber Orchestra Method: a music program and methodology that utilizes a combination of both music therapy and music education approach; and that has been fully established in different non-profit organizations.


Music Therapy & In-Home Special Education  “Music therapy is the specialized use of music by a credentialed professional who develops individualized treatment and supportive interventions for people of all ages and ability levels to address their social, communication, emotional, physical, cognitive, sensory, and spiritual needs.”  
~Certification Board for Music Therapists
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To learn more about music therapy history, research, practice, populations served, codes of ethics, (FAQ) and more click: 
American Music Therapy Association 

Some students respond to music activities and interventions in a more engaged, focused, or verbal way than in other types of interventions or activities.   Our In-Home Special Education music programs are carefully design to fit the needs of each student while provided at the comfort of their home.
Music lessons can be structure to help promote nonmusical skills such as: 

  • communication and language
  • social and emotional
  • cognitive and academics
  • physical coordination and sensorimotor
  • impulse control and self regulation
  • self care and self esteem

Populations Served

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Developmental Disabilities
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Physical Disabilities
  • Genetic Disorders
  • Geriatric 

​Whether it is reinforcing fine-motor skills and sensory processing through piano instructions; or improving speech articulation, breath support, self expression and self esteem with singing lessons; or whether it is promoting attention span, memory retention, and daily living skills by engaging in sequence-of-steps song writing activities; or whether it is just to foster fun educational activities to your child, our individualized In-Home Special Education music programs will bring each student an exciting opportunity to experience and discover their artistic and creative self.  

In Home One-on-one Music LessonsAvoid the hassle and inconvenience... 

We will go to your home!
Individualized in-home music instructions for:

  • Piano
  • Guitar
  • Voice
  • Drums/Precussion
  • Ukulele
  • Recorder
  • General Music 
  • Or combination

All lessons includes the implementation of the instrument's performance techniques, music theory, music staff reading and recital's music repertory. 

NOTE: our music lesson program WILL NOT include the implementation of music therapy procedures and goals. However, music lessons can be strategically designed to help promote and encourage therapeutic nonmusical goals.

It's easy to take the next step:

​Lessons available in Burbank
Contact us today to arrange your first lesson!

818-902-1233
- Music Therapy Stages -
First Session 
The first session is a time for beginning the process of gaining trust and rapport, while observing and taking notes about clients responses to the setting, the therapist, the music and or other presented stimuli. The music therapist attempts to establish certain conditions which maximize the opportunity to develop a close working relationship with the client. The objectives for what is to be accomplished in the first session includes:

  • Developing Rapport
  • Gathering Information
  • Observing
  • Further defining the problem and goal
  • Outlining responsibilities of client and therapist
Assessment
General Assessment of functioning will be conducted by way of systematic observation to determine client's strength and weaknesses and to measure client's functional level.
Criteria to consider:

  • Communication Skills
  • Cognitive Skills
  • Sensory Processing
  • Motor Skills
  • Psycho-social and Emotional S.
  • Musical Skills  
Treatment Plan
The process of developing a hierarchy or series of objectives and target behaviors that carry out the goal of therapy; it outlines how the client is expected to progress throughout the course of therapy sessions.
Includes:

  • A review of the assessment report
  • A hierarchy of Objectives and Target behaviors 
  • A brief description of Strategies
  • A Design; case studies, experimental group, or individual therapy
Treatment Implementation
Includes:

  • Contracting
  • Session Planning
  • Describing clien'ts progress
  • Reviewing the therapeutic relationship
  • Revising procedures
Treatment Evaluation and Documentation
At this stage, the therapist attempts to define if music therapy have been successful in reaching the goals set in the treatment plan.
This evaluation will determine the degree of success or failure of music therapy to reach outlined therapeutic goals. 
Treatment Termination
Music therapist determines termination when client has attained all goals, fails to benefit from service, can no longer be scheduled, or is discharged.

This stage includes:

  • Treatment summary of the client's progress
  • A Date for the last session 
  • A plan for phasing out sessions, if feasible
  • Recognition of client's feelings regarding termination
  • A focus on the client's future, including recommendation for other services and plans for reassessment or follow-up.