During her birth Laura lost 20 minutes of oxygen and had to be resuscitated immediately. She had no brainwave activity seen on the two EEG tests, and little hope, except in her parents’ heart. When Laura’s mother finally saw her baby, Laura’s little lungs breathed...
Music Therapy is about identifying how music reaches into your core emotional state and helps change it to where you want to be!
It’s Thursday morning and eight visually impaired babies and toddlers accompany their parents to the music therapy program at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB). They file in one by one, many of the parent’s looking disheveled and tired. The parents...
Our final musical motivator...# 50 Music is individual - Every person responds to music differently, and any one person may respond to music differently at various times throughout his or her life. Aside from some recent research on rhythm and movement, there are no...
Registration for all 2012 JBMT SERVICES AND PROGRAMS (inclusive choir, drum circles, online special for music therapy and adapted music lessons) In another time and place (Saskatchewan, Canada) an opportunity for persons with disabilities to reach their performance...
I don't typically write the feedback I get from blogs posted but with your permission here are just some of the messages I received after writing "A Love Song for My Children" from some incredible mothers and grandmothers. Thank you ladies. I know the pulls and tugs...
During a particularly difficult time in my life I felt overwhelmed and out of touch with what was important. I know there are many of you in this position – managing work, obligations at home, managing family schedules, doctors visits, grocery shopping, not to...
There are many different ways a person with autism can be affected by music. For example, certain music can foster a desire to communicate with others. This is often in due part because music can help break the patterns of social isolation. Music can also be used to...