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Children are beautiful; they are cheerful, noble and filled with happiness, but they also jump, shout, cry, kick and when more than 30 of them are together, the situation is twice as complicated. That is the scene that Guanacaste’s public school teachers have to face day after day; although they have the responsibility to do so, it usuallyproduces stress and tension. Read more here…

Dementia experts are calling for music therapy to be available on prescription for people with dementia. They want clinicians to use music to reawaken and stimulate the brain and focus less on pharmalogical interventions. Read more here…

Amanda Rosado is a music therapist with the Sheppard Pratt Health System in Towson. As an empathetic, compassionate and open-minded listener with a long history and interest in playing instruments and singing, Rosado uses the soothing, creative expressiveness of music to help adolescent females at Sheppard Pratt discover the healing and therapeutic effects music can have on the mind, body and soul. Read more here…

Michael Rohrbacher wheeled a suitcase filled with musical instruments into the memory care center at Terraces at Bonita Springs. There were drums and hand chimes; maracas and shakers shaped like bananas, apples and lemons. For the next 30 minutes, Rohrbacher and two Florida Gulf Coast University students played music for, and with, about a dozen of the center’s residents. Read more here…

A Seventh-day Adventist music therapist is using skills learned in Pathfinders and church to reach autistic children in Brazil. Ana Carolina Steinkopf, who at 24 is barely out of Pathfinders herself, has created a musical performance called “Uma Sinfonia Diferente” (A Different Kind of Symphony) that regularly brings together 21 children and their families, a psychologist and 21 psychology students, a camera crew, a photography crew, a band with seven musicians, and a production team. Read more here…

Nearly a dozen elderly men and women sat in a circle shaking maracas and beating bongo drums while three young women musicians hummed a song. After the song had ended, one of the older women asked guitarist Wang Weijia to create a song about a grandmother and her granddaughter. Read more here…

Piano soloist and storyteller Robin Spielberg will share original music and real-life stories when she performs at 7 p.m. Oct. 1 at the Sheldon Theatre. She also will make a special appearance at Mayo Clinic Health System in Red Wing to talk about another role she fills. Spielberg is celebrity artist spokesperson for the American Music Therapy Association. Read more here…

In a 2007 study, researchers from UCLArts & Healing set out to determine if group drumming could help reduce stress in children. Those leading the study combined activities of group drumming and group counseling designed to build a variety of skills, ranging from self esteem to stress management.“We found significant reductions in all sorts of problem behaviors related to such things as inattention, withdrawal and depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress,” said UCLArts & Healing Founding Executive Director Ping Ho. “These are actually regular school children, and I think that’s what made our study so amazing.” Read more here…

Music and church were the constants in Caroline Berry’s life. But a few years after dementia began ravaging her mind, nothing could convince her to leave the comfort of home for Sunday services. The cruel irony wasn’t lost on her son, Don Berry, of Elizabethtown. As his mother’s personality faded, Berry still saw the woman who would wake him after a late night playing with his band and push him out the door to Wesley Methodist Church. Read more here…

Music isn’t the only thing that allows for relaxation. It is shown that ambient sounds, such as rain and thunder, can help focus and relax. You may find it easy to relax to the sound of rainfall, or even “color” noises. Read more here…