Educating, enriching, and ascending the lives of autistic, deaf, and blind children and students, using our groundbreaking music therapeutic, robotic, and unparalleled Assistive technology innovations.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station and students enrolled in our worldwide STEM, STEAM and distance learning network, collaborate to make music with our interactive keyboards - creating history by participating in the First Interactive Music Performance From Space!
Donating our interactive musical keyboards to the poorest schools around the world so their students can connect to our selective decorated teachers and international students to make music, learn each other's languages, culture, and practice tolerance.
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Engaging the elderly with LIVE and interactive performances - playing the music of their era to fight depression and loneliness. We also donate our pianos to nursing homes so the elderly can entertain themselves to preserve and elevate mental acuity. The foundation creates interactive solutions so the elderly can connect with loved ones worldwide that may not be able to physically visit them in hospitals and nursing homes.
MoreOUR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
The first and only REAL interactive musical instrument for distance learning, the SHADD
Starr keyboard enables countless students, teachers, and musicians worldwide to interact
simultaneously in real-time and in-sync. Although we have the capability to donate many different
types of instruments from drum sets to tubas, our main focus presently is offering the SHADD
interactive keyboard which is the exclusive musical instrument that encompasses interactive
technology that allows distance learning and performing worldwide for all walks of life. This keyboard
is the ultimate partner for stage, orchestra pit, recording studio performances, music therapy, music
education such as classroom labs, etc. An important feature is its Assistive technology that allows full
interactive musical participation for autistic, deaf, blind, and those with neurodevelopmental
disabilities, and neurobehavioral disorders. Another special differentiator is its super scientific
software that allows individuals that have lost a limb to totally control the keyboard's functions and to
play the keys via ‘mind control’ as the brain guides the hands to move across the keyboard and press
the keys to play music. With a ton of usable onboard sounds, an onboard computer, transparent
touchscreen monitor, video cameras, microphones, surround sound speakers, beat pads,
alphanumeric keyboard with mouse pad, and much much more, the incomparable SHADD Starr is the
most highly equipped and most humanitarian rewarding keyboard in history!
WHY PIANO LESSONS?
Understanding that there is an overwhelming abundance of favorable statistics related to playing piano, unfortunately, there are many individuals and institutions that are left-out due to lack of funding to purchase keyboard instruments. This is where the SHADD Foundation can help. See some of the wonderful examples that show the advantage of playing piano and how it plays an intricate part in cultivating our daily lives:
