Mission Statement

Allegro Foundation…a Champion for Children with Disabilities is a nonprofit 501(c) 3 organization that combines movement instruction with medical and educational expertise, creating a new vehicle to teach children with disabilities and enhance their quality of life.

Who We Serve: Allegro teaches more than 500 children with mental retardation, Down syndrome, orthopedic challenges (wheelchairs and walkers), Spina bifida, cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, muscular dystrophy, visual and hearing impairments, children “at-risk”, and children with cancer in FREE classes every week!

Allegro Foundation has been operational for 20 years. Originally founded in 1991 in Los Angeles, Allegro has taught THOUSANDS of North Carolina’s underserved children with disabilities and at risk, providing medical, social, emotional, and educational benefits for the past 10 years.

Basic Philosophy

Allegro’s basic philosophy emphasizes the total learning process by combining cognitive and muscle memories together to stimulate sequential and conceptual learning, problem-solving skills and communication, while also building motor skills/physical coordination, and eliciting strong emotional and physiological changes in the body. Please visit Allegro’s Research Institute for a detailed biological explanation of Allegro’s Basic Philosophy.

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