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A bill that would certify Indiana therapists who specialize in using music to treat people with autism, Alzheimer’s and other conditions is advancing in the General Assembly. Read more here…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In the heart of a bustling chemotherapy treatment area, a cellist sits off to the side, playing his instrument for patients seated in open bays nearby. Read more here…

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra violist has been an active proponent of musical therapy and wellness since recovering from breast cancer. Read more here…

The local Long & McQuade store raised just over $1,700 in its 2012 music therapy drive. The store has been raising funds for the hospital’s pedi-atric music therapy program since 2008, raising more than $3,600 over five years. Read the rest here… 

THE Theatre in Chipping Norton is taking part in a new music therapy project involving three care homes. Funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, The Theatre will be co-ordinating music therapy sessions for residents of Southerndown Care Home, Henry Cornish Care Centre and Beech Haven Care Home in the town. Read more here….

A measure that would certify Indiana therapists who specialize in using music to treat people with autism, Alzheimer’s and other conditions is advancing in the General Assembly. Read more here…

Cayman Music Therapy, run by board-certified music therapists Kim Febres and Julianne Parolisi, will be running a pilot programme at Cayman HospiceCare using money they received in a grant from the Cayman National Cultural Foundation. Read more here….

Sonatina Music Therapy, a private music therapy provider serving New Hampshire counties and southern Maine is taking sign ups for Nashua students in February. Read more here… 

He began taking music therapy classes at the Cleveland Clinic to re-learn the skills he had lost. “The primary thing we do is work on his speech through singing songs and then talking about the songs so he can practice his speech that way too,”  said Lisa Gallagher, a music therapist at the Cleveland Clinic. Read more here…

The 9-year-old girl is among the increasing number of people who turn to music therapy to ease pain, improve their social skills and mobility. Hospitals and non-profit organizations in the valley such as Banner Desert Medical Center are using music as therapy.The idea of music therapy has been around for hundreds of year,“The earliest records of healing rituals always pictured drums, rattles and dancing,” Crowe said. “There is something intrinsic about the human response to music.”. Read more here…