FIVE STRATEGIES FOR THE MUSIC TEACHER OF SOMEONE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS When introducing a new piece of music, play it through in its entirety - up to tempo and with all the dynamics and flourishes you hope to hear at the end of the teaching experience. Break down the...
(reprint from Voices - www.voices.no) For over 50 years, Fran Herman has used her special talents as a music therapist, advocate, artist and leader to change the lives of many people. From early on Fran has worked tirelessly to promote music therapy, making it...
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...
Eight years ago a group of parents with special needs children looked at me intently, awaiting my reply to - “will you design a music based camp for our kids?” They referred to their children as having strong affinities to music yet not fitting well into the “regular”...
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 with...
Thank you to Christina Wensveen, MTA from JB Music Therapy for this next blog...her passion for bringing music to individuals regardless of age is evidenced in her writing and in her role as Music Therapist and Camp Coordinator. On a typical Saturday morning I...
3 weeks ago JB Music Therapy received the call....the MusiKiva Project is a go - get immunized, pack your bags, you are going to Rwanda. Please welcome guest blogger Shannon Robinson, music therapist with JBMT for over 10 years, to explain how this has all come about...
This month JB Music Therapy is highlighting the 10th year of a well-loved music therapist in our company - Shannon Robinson, BMT, MTA.I couldn’t imagine a better way to acknowledge Shannon than to share her beautiful work at the Emily Follensbee School - work that...