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A day program for adults with autism that presumes competence, focuses on strengths and provides job training, social life and employment.

Music as a language

By Gil I think that music is a language. It is a language because it talks without speaking. You can tell stories that are only in sounds. From classical music to modern electronic music they don’t use singing. These genres can tell their stories that are just as important to tell. It shows that you can tell stories with just sound. I think that the music the way to tell your thoughts if you can’t talk. You can show others happy songs for when your happy. You can have other songs for other great times. You can have a song for each of the zones, red, green, blue, and yellow. That way you can always tell others how I feel because feelings are hard to tell others.

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About JoyDew

JoyDew transforms the brutal reality of people with autism from being treated as a commodity, living in isolation and without hope, into flourishing human beings with lifelong friends, who can express themselves and apply their unique talents and skills to succeed in the workplace. Our day program identifies their unique strengths and interests, develops them with job training and academic enrichment, provides communication and other supports, and creates high-level employment for people with autism, without exception, where they can learn and grow in a community of their own, and unleash their hopes and dreams.