A Joyful Noise School of Music, Inc.
Charles Lage, MPT, D.A. Piano Ed. "The greatest thıng you wıll ever do ıs to help those that can't - or won't - help themselves" - Charles Lage "We don't do thıngs because they are easy. We do them because they are hard" - President John F. Kennedy "My kids wanted me to buy them an encyclopaedia so I told them that when I was their age I had to walk to school" ~Yogi Berra, allstar catcher for the NY Yankees "Let's Roll! It's a good day to die" ~Lakota Sioux Chief Crazy Horse Our Gang - click leaf
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A virtual music school for the benefit of the challenged through therapy, programme assistance, instruction, utilizing the greatest tool to learn how to learn ever created by human hands. The Piano. Join me, Charles Lage, an Autism Survivour, in a most incredible journey into the human mind and create a world where the challenged can shine. Join us and we can help your programme in Music, Drama, etc., to benefit all the challenged to be the very best they can be. It's easy to be part of an outlaw gang but can you gently take a senior out to the park and just as gently return them home? You all have those that are challenged in your families. CANCER, HEART ATTACK, STROKE, AGING, PAIN, POVERTY, AUTISM AND MUCH MORE. Yet you take the easy way out and end up in gaol (jail). It's much harder to do the right thing than to do the wrong thing. I challenge you to do the right thing and be the very best you can be. I Know You Can
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Coming soon a Book of the Auto Biography of Charles Lage an adult Autism Survivor.
By Charles Lage, MPT, D.A. Piano Ed.
A gift can be as unique as the
person giving – Charles Lage is
proof of that. One day, he showed up
at St. Amant with a $25,000 piano he
wanted to donate.
Lage, 49, has autism. When Lage was a
child, programs like St. Amant’s Applied
Behavior Analysis did not exist to help
kids deal with autism. In fact, Lage’s
autism wasn’t even diagnosed in his
childhood – he just acted “different”.
“Being different, I was picked on and
beat up every day,” he recalls.
Today, early diagnosis is common. And
St. Amant’s Applied Behavior Analysis
(ABA) program is here to support kids
with autism spectrum disorders. St.
Amant’s ABA program now helps about
100 children a year.
Without a program like St. Amant’s
– or even a diagnosis – to help him, Lage
simply got lucky. He was immersed in
music from a young age, and he found
that music complements his autism. For
example, it allows him to tune a piano
automatically, without concentrating.
The former proprietor of the Charles Lage
Piano Co. figures he has tuned 28,000
pianos in his career.
He plans to acknowledge his musical
gift by giving music – and fully restored
pianos – to groups that help children. He
calls his plan The Joyful Noise School of
Music. The St. Amant Foundation was
among the first to be touched by his
largesse.
Thanks to St. Amant, children with
autism can now have an easier time
being kids.
And thanks to donors like Charles
Lage, St. Amant is able to improve and
expand services and programs to reach
more Manitobans and their families.