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I can remember when he was little and I would lay awake at night
and worry about his future what's gonna happen to him
he would have these explosive tantrums and
I wouldn't be able to control him. I would have to literally wrap my arms
around him to keep him from
hurting himself or hurting other people hurting his sister
and I used to worry he's five
I can hold him down now, but I'm not going to get a hold him down when he's bigger
than I am
what's gonna happen with 17 learn
and I'll go where.... the swirling current takes me.
I'm with the wind.... I'm with the wind.
eventually he pretty much got himself kicked out a preschool
and that's when we started looking for other
ideas other solutions something wasn't right
in the second grade he came to us as little boy it was
a difference in night and day within a couple of months of coming here
instead of me literally having to drag him out the door to go to school in
the morning
he was grabbing his backpack and jumping out waiting on the front step for the
bus to come pick him up
our mission is to change the way the world views
people with autism and other developmental disabilities
I'm still with you
kevin is everything you look for in a student that you want to have in your
classroom yes
he is curious, engaged, analytical. He wants know everything
we brought music therapy into our programs nearly twenty years ago
and it's been so highly successful with our clientele
I sent him home with the trombone a couple weeks ago and he's like alright
I'll try to learn it
brought the drums in and he was super engaged with the drums, giving me feedback on the
drums and had some really wonderful insight about how he felt playing them
and what he thought about them. Music lends itself very easily as a medium
especially for people are non-verbal to become verbal
to be able to use music as a way to communicate
positively giving them away to to show people all the things that they can do
instead of what they can't do
Phenomenal transformations occur
over relatively short periods of time
we have found that music is literally magical in the lives of our students
I've never gone, I'm still with you. I'm in the wind...
the skills that TERi has given him
are allowing him to actually get the kind of things he's gonna need
to go to live independently to actually have a life
that's when as a teacher I feel more fulfilled is when I'm not teaching
anymore
where I've just taught them how to teach themselves. if you had told me 10 years
ago
that we would be looking at colleges right now
for Kevin I would have laughed
The work that we do is not as much our gift others as
a gift to us. Now he is 17
I don't have to worry about his future anymore I know he's got skills to be
able to be successful
to watch students with significant challenges
progress to the point that they're
making significant contributions to our society
and are happy and living full lives
I can't think of anything that compares
I'm still with you, I'm in the wind...