Music For Maternity

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Seated at a table dotted with paintbrushes, pencils and curios, Hideka Suzuki is creating an abstract on a small canvas. It’s not an idle craft project; for her, it’s a form of therapy. “Sometimes I don’t even know what I’m thinking until I sit down and start drawing. Then my feelings come out on paper,” said Suzuki, a teacher in remission from uterine cancer. Read more here…

A unique music therapy program in Hamilton is touching a lot of lives. The executive director of Fermata Music Therapy, Daniel Hyams, joins us to explain how it works, and why it works. Read more here…

TRURO — It’s medical music to Lara Robinson’s trained ears. “They had a lot of success with it out West, so I’m excited,” Robinson, a music therapist at Cedarstone Enhanced Care in Truro for the past 16 years, said of the iPod Pharmacy program. Read more here…

The profession of music therapy is coming into its own in South Carolina, as board-certified professionals and academics partner with medical facilities and community agencies across the state. Read more here…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Losing a child is something no parent should experience, and when one expectant couple found out their daughter wasn’t expected to live long, they took steps to turn their heartache into a few precious moments of celebration, preserving their newborn daughter’s legacy. Read more here…

Music is a universal language, and when you’re recovering from a stroke and trying to regain your speech, music therapy can help to convey your thoughts into words. This unique program helped Janet Botting communicate and redevelop her ability to speak after two strokes in the fall of 2012. In consultation with her speech language pathologist, Janet was introduced to Tomoko Okumura, the music therapist at the Brant Community Healthcare System (BCHS) and the two began working together once a week for a half hour session. Read more here…

Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast in partnership with the Northern Ireland Music Therapy Trust found that music therapy reduces depression in children and adolescents with behavioral and emotional problems. Read more here…

With yoga and meditation getting popular and serving as free medicine, even music should be optimally used, said Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Chief Justice of Madras High Court. He was speaking at the inauguration of ‘December Art Festival’, organised by Brahma Gana Sabha in the city on Wednesday. Read more here…

Music and memory: In new film, music therapy brings dramatic improvements to Alzheimer’s patients As the population of this country, and even more so the Southwest Florida region, continues to age, there are few diagnoses more feared, more devastating than that of Alzheimer’s disease. Read more here…

In a small, square room on a recent Tuesday evening at Concord Community Music School, 9-year-old Sophia Bush sat tall atop a stool as she tapped, tapped, tapped on the drum set before her. Her teacher, Julieann Hartley, counted out the beats – “one” (snare), “two” (bass), “three” (snare, again) “four” (back to the bass) – slowly, carefully, until Sophia’s rhythm fell into place. Read more here…