PostHeaderIcon Movement and music therapy finds a home in Pana

Erica Matthews, center, works with Connor Taylor, 10, as he learns a new dance routine during a "movement therapy" session at the Autism and Movement Project center, Friday, June 20, 2014, in Pana, Ill. Matthews has worked with Connor since he was 2 1/2 and he is the reason she decided to start the Autism and Movement Project in Pana.

Today, Matthews sees improvements like this every day at the “movement therapy” center she opened in April 2012 in Pana. Matthews and Connor’s mother, Amanda Taylor, believe movement therapy — a music and movement sensory integration strategy connecting the left and right sides of the brain — has made all the difference for Connor, now 10.  Read more here

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