Partners in Arts Participation
ACHF Arts Access
Bring artists to people whose disabilities make it hard to attend music performances, and help them increase their ability to sustain attention to performances. MacPhail will distribute evaluations to Mount Olivet Rolling Acres staff to assess whether the hours, types, and quality of services promised were provided. Residents' music-attention spans will be assessed before and throughout the program using standard metrics. 2: Improve the emotional well-being, social skills, fine-motor skills, and expressive capacity of Rolling Acres residents through music therapy--including listening, discussion, and performance. Staff will identify specific therapeutic targets for each of the projected twenty participants. Using established benchmarks for assessing facility in all such target areas, Mount Olivet Rolling Acres will regularly evaluate and record participants' progress.
Program participants with intellectual/ developmental and other disabilities (I/DD) gained music performance experience and artistic, social, and behavioral skills. 2: Residents demonstrated increased self-esteem, social skills, and fine-motor skills in the context of this music learning and performance group.