The Rebecca Center for Music Therapy at Molloy College Information

Our mission at The Rebecca Center is to use interactive music therapy interventions to facilitate relatedness, communication, and thinking while removing physical and cognitive barriers that prevent children with developmental challenges from engaging in essential social interactions and life processes. Music and the relational experiences intrinsic to musical-play are therapy when applied clinically. Interactive musical experiences can help a child with developmental challenges in many ways; fulfill the need to interact, socialize, communicate, achieve, learn and improve physicality. Musical-play can provide the unique experience of integrating multiple sensory stimuli simultaneously, facilitating self-regulation and sensory modulation. Musical-play can also generate effective interactions that foster reciprocity and creative thinking. Programs at The Rebecca Center for Music Therapy at Molloy College are aimed at discovering the unique potential in every child through interactive musical-play, in order to facilitate engagement, relatedness, communication, and thinking. In creating a non-judgmental, musically and emotionally supportive therapeutic atmosphere, the child can discover emotional and behavioral self-regulation through engaging in interactive musical-play. Programs include: individual and group music therapy sessions, therapeutic lessons, and DIR®/Floortime™ intervention services. The Rebecca Center offers Parent Support Groups for parents of children with autism, aimed at decreasing parent stress. The Rebecca Center is the U.S.A. site for TIME-A international research study.TIME-A is the first well-controlled effectiveness study and largest randomised controlled trial on non-pharmacological therapy for autism to date.