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Two days after her fourth birthday, Hiyam Sabbagh was diagnosed with cancer. What started out as a tumour in her left kidney was found to have spread to other areas in her body. It was another two weeks before her family knew the type of cancer involved. For the past nine months, Hiyam has been fighting the disease with a mix of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, administered at the Sydney Children’s Hospital in Randwick. Staff and volunteers from the hospital’s Play and Music Therapy Department have worked with Hiyam since November to help prepare her for the procedures and treatment involved. Read more here…

“Crescendo” is a weekly music therapy group designed for those with neurological impairments such as Parkinson’s Disease, stroke or traumatic brain injury, and their families. Patients, along with their family members or caregivers, can play instruments, sing, move, and connect with others through music. No prior music experience is needed. Read more here…

EDINA, Minn. (KMSP) -The music coming out of the speakers is from a different era — the good old days, according to 83-year-old Whitey Westlund. If only his 82-year-old wife Audrey could remember. Read more here…

The presenters are Laura Beer, Ph.D., MT-BC, ACMT, director of the music therapy program at Marylhurst University; Liska McNally, MT-BC, clinical supervisor, Marylhurst University; Jessica Western, MT-BC, vice president, Oregon Association for Music Therapy; and Jodi Winnwalker, LCSW, MT-BC, CEO, Earthtones Music Therapy Services. McNally and Western also teach music therapy at Marylhurst. Read more here…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida State University professor is the first-ever winner of a new international award designed to recognize the top researchers in the field of music therapy. Read more here…

The film follows Music and Memory founder Dan Cohen as he fights against “a broken health care system” to prove music’s ability to fight memory loss and “restore a deep sense of self.” Music and Memory is a nonprofit organization founded in 2006 to provide elderly persons with music to improve their quality of life and “to make therapeutic music a standard part of elder care.” Read more here…

Everything you always suspected about music is true. Scientists can point to the parts of the brain that music stimulates, where our deepest memories and feelings reside. The phenomenon even stretches back to before birth, when the sound of a heartbeat establishes our sensory proclivity toward music. Read more here…

A new documentary coming to theatres around the US over the next few months explores Dan Cohen’s Music and Memory program and its emotional and therapeutic impacts on the lives of people with dementia and Alzheimer’s. “Alive Inside is a joyous cinematic exploration of music’s capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity,” says the producer’s website. Read more here…

A presentation on music therapy was held in the Inner Circle of the library on Saturday. Local music therapist, Michele Folster explained what music therapy is, its history, and who it can help, but she says you have to experience it to understand it. Read more here…

HERKIMER — The Herkimer ARC will host Autism Movement Therapy classes on Wednesdays for teens ages 13 and older and adults at the agency’s exercise and dance studio at the Gail W. Brown Center, 411 Folts St. in Herkimer.  Read more here…