Our Mission

Spectrum Creative Arts is an inclusive arts education and therapy eye, specializing in person-centered opportunities for learners with special needs. Our talented team of arts educators and therapists create unique, student-driven creative arts experiences in music, art, theatre, and dance. Spectrum offers individual sessions, group classes, and ensembles both on-site at our clinic, and throughout the Greater Rochester community. Our mission to inspire and empower our students through active participation in the artistic arts. Come create with u.s.!

Our Story

Spectrum Creative Arts began when three Rochester-based music therapists shared vision to build a "second home" for people of all ages, backgrounds, and needs to come up together and limited their creativity. In 2013, Spectrum proudly opened the doors to its dispensary in Pittsford, NY, offering unique, student-driven creative arts experiences in music, art, theatre, and dance. Under the management of music therapists Megan Resig, Noa Ferguson, and Wade Richards, Spectrum's talented team of arts educators and therapists cultivate its mission to inspire and empower its students through active, person-centered date in the arts. We offer individual sessions, group classes, and ensembles both on-site at our dispensary and throughout the Greater Rochester community, providing education and therapeutic services in early intervention programs, school districts, customs centers, senior living facilities, rehabilitation clinics, and grouping homes. Spectrum Creative Arts is passionate about creating exceptional arts experiences for students of all backgrounds and needs. Come explore the arts with our growing "family!"

"Inclusion is not bringing people into what already exists; it is making a new space, a better space for everyone."

Frequently Asked Questions

Each child is completely dissimilar and therefore information technology is hard to put a specific age on when a student might be gear up to start individual lessons. However, in that location are some indicators that your kid might be ready for this experience:

  • They can follow elementary directions
  • They can attend to an activity for approximately xxx minutes
  • They would be comfortable working with some other developed

The all-time style to detect out if you lot child is ready is to schedule an initial consultation with us! During this visit, your kid can encounter his or her teacher and do a sample lesson.

We typically recommend that kids beginning with a 30 minute lesson, one time per week. As the teacher gets to know your child, he or she may somewhen recommend more than time.

For teen and adult learners, we typically recommend a 45-60 minute lesson.

Yeah! Every semester we offering a small selection of group experiences based on our teacher availability and customs interest. Yous can view all of our currently running classes on our course registration folio . We open registration for these groups approximately 1 – 2 months before the offset of the semester. Students are encouraged to reserve their spot as soon as possible to ensure that the class meets enrollment and there is space in the group. Don't see a grade that works for you lot? Permit us know what you're interested in! We are always working on developing new programming based on the feedback from our community!
All of our private clinic-based services are billed the following rates:
30 minutes …………………………………………………… $32.fifty
45 minutes …………………………………………………… $48.75
60 minutes …………………………………………………… $65.00
Delight contact u.s.a. for pricing data related to our schoolhouse-services and community programming

For private services:At the showtime of every calendar month, yous will receive an invoice for all of the sessions you attended the previous month. Y'all can pay your invoice in person at our role, online through our website, or by phone.You can pay your invoice in person at our part, online through our website, by phone, or mail payment to the address listed on your invoice.

For group classes:Anyone registered for a grouping course volition exist billed the full amount for the semester during the registration menstruum, typically as before long every bit the class has met enrollment. Payment for all classes is due by the first day of class. Yous tin pay your invoice in person at our office, online through our website, by phone, or post payment to the accost listed on your invoice.

For community services: At the starting time of every month, you will receive an invoice for all of the services our squad provided in the previous month. You can pay your invoice in person at our office, online through our website, by phone, or mail service payment to the address listed on your invoice.

Yes! We work with a number of tertiary-party agencies to bill for services through an individual'southward self-direction plan. If you, or the student you are referring, would like to set this upward, let united states know and we'll have you fill out the advisable paperwork.

If y'all are unable to attend your scheduled session, students or caregivers must contact their teacher/therapist at least 24 hours prior to the scheduled session. Upon providing adequate notification of an absence, the instructor/therapist will work with you to schedule a make–upwards session at no additional charge. If you are unable to provide 24 hours' notice for a session cancellation, y'all volition exist charged the total corporeality for the missed session. No brand-up sessions will exist offered. If the instructor/therapist must abolish a session, they will work with you to schedule a make-upward session. You will not be charged for the instructor-cancelled session.

Exceptions to the 24-hr cancellation policy may be fabricated in the consequence of the following:

  • Choppy weather condition
  • Documented personal emergency
  • Documented serious disease/medical emergency

Yep! Spectrum is honored to work with many community-based organizations to provide services. If yous or someone y'all know is interested in setting upward services with Spectrum, please contact united states of america to larn more than about the variety of services options we provide!

Individual sessions are provided at the Spectrum Creative Arts clinic location in Pittsford, NY. Exceptions may be granted on a case-past-case basis. Contact us for more information!