by jb music therapy | Sep 7, 2017 | Blog, Elders, Memory, Neuro Rehab - Brain Injury, Stroke
People have long known that music can trigger powerful recollections, but now brain-scan studies show us what is really happening, and why when we use the right music we can actually help keep our memories in good working order. Petr Janata, a cognitive neuroscientist...
by jb music therapy | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog, Disabilities
“It is obvious that not all hearing impaired people will be musical in its fullest sense. But, then neither are all hearing folk. What is needed is the opportunity to experiment in order to discover what musical abilities lie dormant in us” – William G Fawkes,...
by jb music therapy | Jun 4, 2017 | Activities for Home and Work, Blog
One weekend when I was 8 years old I woke up to a piano being carried into my living room by two burly men. Within weeks of the piano being delivered a man by the name of Mr. Nicholwitz arrived. He was introduced to me as my piano teacher. Mr. Nicholwitz would arrive...
by jb music therapy | May 8, 2017 | Blog, Palliative Care
25 years has passed since I entered my first palliative care room. Today, like all the other days in the past, I was unfamiliar with the person I was about to meet – all I knew as I walked through her door was that her name was Sheryl and she was the same age...
by jb music therapy | Apr 2, 2017 | Autism, Blog
In 1991, the first year of JB Music Therapy, AUTISM was still spoken about as a rare, life long, institutionalized disorder. Autistic disorder is rare, occurring in fewer than five children per ten thousand births, but with few exceptions, it leads to a life of...
