Singing as a therapeutic strategy may be a viable treatment for voice, respiratory, and swallow impairment in persons with PD. Singing shares many elements in common with voice production and targets the musculature involved in respiratory control and swallow.…

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Music flowed from Marian like a waterfall. She sang all day, every day. The people around her couldn't stand it. 

To the nurses and to the other residents of the unit, Marian's singing sounded like shouting, a frequent reality…

It doesn't matter if it's Bach, the Beatles, Brad Paisley or Bruno Mars. Your favorite music likely triggers a similar type of activity in your brain as other people's favorites do in theirs. 

That's one of the things…

In today’s world, creative thinking is needed more than ever. Not only do many businesses seek creative minds to fill their ranks, but the kinds of complex social problems we face could also use a good dose of creativity. 

Past and present service members and dependents suffering from traumatic brain injury can now take part in a Creative Forces music therapy program, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the DoD, designed to help them…

Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) affects five to ten percent of all children – an average of one child in every classroom. But how do you know if your child may have Sensory Processing Disorder? What are the sensory processing disorder…

Like most parents, I think each of my children is special. My toddler can sense when I am having a rough time and gives me a hug and kiss because he knows it will make me smile. My other…

There are over 5,000 board-certified music therapists in the United States. And there’s one question we get asked daily: 

What is music therapy? 
According to the American Music Therapy Association, “Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of…

Six years ago, a snowboarding accident left an 18-year-old man with a catastrophic brain injury. The removal of part of his brain prevented him from moving or speaking. Barbara Harrison shares how music therapy helped him make a dramatic recovery…

Half a century ago in England, the Philadelphia-born musician Paul Nordoff—a conservatory-trained pianist who’d composed music for Martha Graham ballets and taught at Bard College—sat down to play for an unlikely audience: a little boy named Johnny who was…

My interest in music and memory began during my music therapy internship at a small nursing home in Brooklyn in the fall of 1978. It was there that I witnessed firsthand the power of music to reach seemingly lost function…