Causes: Ambulatory & Primary Health Care, Developmentally Disabled Centers, Disabilities, Education, Health, Human Services, Rehabilitative Care, Special Education

Mission: Since 1982, NMTSA's mission is to provide preventative and rehabilitative neurologic music therapy services as well as community education and training to provide positive behavioral and communication supports for persons with neurologic impairments, autism or developmental disabilities. NMTSA exists to provide these programs and services not only to those who can afford them but also to those who cannot. ACT (Assuming Competence Today) is a literacy-based program within NMTSA that serves children with autism who have not succeeded in their regular district programs due to behavioral, sensory, and/or communication needs. ACT's goal is to meet those needs within a challenging literacy-based program, and to then integrate those children back into inclusive settings within their own districts.

Target demographics: Persons of all ages with autism, neurologic impairments such as Parkinson's, strokes, traumatic brain injuries as well as developmental disabilities in the state of Arizona.

Direct beneficiaries per year: 300

Programs: Neurologic Music Therapy program and ACT School (Assuming Competence Today) for children with autism