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PostHeaderIcon Music therapy program cut could affect jobs

With UND cutting the music therapy program, music therapists believe it will have a large impact on the jobs in the state.

Fargo, ND (Valley News Live) One of the recent financial victims is UND’s music therapy program, which has been cut and is no longer accepting new majors. For those working in the field, they fear that the move will have a major impact moving forward. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon At Jacksonville’s Brooks Rehab, playing musical instruments in ‘active’ music therapy helps neurological patients

Marc Kurland (right) strums an auto harp as part of his music therapy session with neurological music therapist Danielle Porter at Brooks Rehabilitation.

“Under the Boardwalk” by The Drifters and “My Girl” by The Temptations. To those beats from his younger days, Kurland, 68, strummed an auto harp with a guitar pick, tapped a hand drum with a mallet or clicked castanets. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon WVU launches music therapy degree

Beginning in fall of 2016, West Virginia University will be the first to host an undergraduate degree program in music therapy in the state of West Virginia. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Fred Penner, Royal Wood, Justin Rutledge Among Music Therapy Trust Concert Performers

Beloved children’s entertainer Fred Penner and a cast of musical friends will be taking people down memory lane to benefit the Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund on March 11. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Music therapy expert to speak

Dr. Theresa Camilli

CEDAR FALLS — Theresa Camilli will present “The Power of a Challenge” at the 10:15 a.m. meeting Friday of the Northeast Area Music Teachers Association at the Hearst Center for the Arts on Seerley Boulevard. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon P.E.I. interest in music therapy growing

Music therapist Katherine Lowings appeared on CBC Mainstreet to promote Music Therapy Month.

This is Music Therapy month, and the Island’s music therapists have been putting on a free lecture series to explain more about how their services help people, both with health concerns and at different stages of life. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Music therapy helps cancer patient

Andrew Hittler of Webster Groves describes himself as a fan of 70s rock. “I always liked Bob Dylan, Bob Seeger, Cat Stevens, James Taylor.” Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Hitting the right note: how music therapy creates a path to healing

Cliff Brown knows how it feels to be trapped. For 12 years, he was caught in a cycle of methamphetamine addiction–a far cry from where he is now. “To be brutally honest with you, I work now and I used to steal. I used to lie all the time and do whatever it took to get high. I work now, and I pay taxes, that’s wild. Back then I didn’t care as long as the next thing led to drugs or alcohol,” he said.
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PostHeaderIcon FROM THE COLLEGES: UMobile honors Roger Breland; MC math prof honored; Carey music therapy students aid camp

MOBILE, Ala. — The University of Mobile has named its school of music the Roger Breland School of Music in honor of one of contemporary Christian music’s early leaders and a member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Music therapy helps Georgia girl with brain injury

ATLANTA – Briana Lawson, 7, of Macon, faces a long road back, after a devastating Christmas Day car accident killed her older sister and left Briana with a severe brain injury.  Read more here

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