Hi.
This program is a socio-dynamic integration program through art. This new approach uses the rhythm of the African djembe as a medium for communication. From that building block, we communicate with those along the autistic spectrum.
What we're doing right now is to put in place different structures, starting from ordinary schools to psychiatric regional hospitals, implementing the program accompanied by research.
This new approach lowers aggression levels and lowers all the integration difficulties of the clientele we're touching. It's applicable to all types of handicaps among children or adults. What it does is to lower anxiety.
During the formation of trainees in these organizations or institutions, it brings a better atmosphere. This brings the participants into a context of creation. So when a participant is in the context of creation, this is always associated with emotion. With these two together, there's a “dynamic neuron” that's created, as I call it, which stores this information. This emotion and creation together stores this information in what we call memory. When we come back to that memory, it often becomes a permanent building block from which we can use the rhythm and every other tool to interact with that person.
From that first building block, the experience of creation brings a person to knowing that he or she can now communicate with the outside world. From that building block, we can put in different music, different words, and different rhythm. It's always within the rhythm basis: the communication is based on rhythm.
During the formation stages in institutions and hospitals, the cost of that formation is lowered because the results are, in the short term, very important. So the cost of the formation is very low compared with the fantastic results.
We're looking at getting government acceptance of this so that schools and different institutions can have this program available on demand.
That's about it for me.