As a Special Educator, I feel so fortunate to have met Eddie in 2013! Since then I have collaborated with Para educators, Occupational Therapists, Eddie and his TRAP team and teachers, to practice using the drums as a teaching tool. Having worked with young and older students in my teaching career, I have seen first hand how students’ faces light up with smiles, they connect with the facilitator, they participate and engage during lessons more often, they learn how to spell and count.

These are only a few of the miracles I have observed while using TRAP. ALL students benefit from the Visual, Tactile, Auditory, Speech methodology of teaching social and academic skills through the binder TRAP provides, and just recently the online tutorial eBook which provides video modeling for facilitators. My life and my students’ lives have been forever enriched with The Rhythm Arts Project!

Carri Gault, M.Ed.

Over the past several years, the Trap program has been active in Beit Al Salam, a district of Damascus, Syria, for people with special needs.

*A training session at Beit al-Salam for the assistants there with our TRAP trainer, Ghaedaa Mawas

Ghaedaa Mawas

PathPoint recently partnered with TRAP to offer the program to participants in our Community Access Programs. In little over a year, we have implemented the program at our sites in Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, San Luis Obispo, Thousand Oaks, and Simi Valley. We are on track to implement the program in Chatsworth, Lancaster, and Bakersfield by the end of the year.

I have been fortunate enough to be part of the training process and have witnessed the phenomenal impact TRAP has on our participants. It is a fun engaging program but also challenges our participants intellectually. I have heard countless stories of individuals opening up and achieving far beyond what was previously expected. The program has been a great success and we look forward to continuing our partnership into the future!

Lauren Loza