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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…

SURREY — Whalley’s Long & McQuade music store is ringing in the holiday season once again with its annual painted instrument auction to benefit music therapy efforts at BC Children’s Hospital. The program, which has been running since 2007, sees musical instruments painted by locally and nationally-known artists sold in a silent auction, with proceeds going to the hospital. Read more here…

An infant in the pediatric intensive care unit is soothed by lullabies sung in tempo with the rhythm of her breathing. A toddler recovering from surgery marches to the beat of a drum in his room, encouraging him to walk, unknowingly promoting healing. A teen freestyles, expressing his battle with cancer as he transforms the unit into a recording studio. Read more here…

The newly-founded Friends of the 73a Day Centre recently presented a cheque for £330 to go towards music therapy equipment and craft materials for the centre’s clients. In 2009 the 73A Day Centre changed hands from East Sussex County Council to Together Your Way, a mental health charity based in London. Read more here…

Sweetest music is the kind that can bring joy to children who need it the most. Huntington, the founder of independently owned and operated True Joy Acoustics of Liberty Twp., this week will donate 25 premium Flea-brand ukuleles to the music therapy program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Read more here…

Curt and Theresa Witeby— no strangers to the Simi Valley Hospital ER and intensive care unit—are now helping patients and their families heal through the “universal language of mankind.” Beginning in mid-December 2006, the Simi Valley couple, ages 61 and 60 respectively, and their three adult children spent 15 days in the emergency ward with Theresa’s father, John Finnegan, after he broke his neck in a serious car accident. Read more here…