Metro Atlanta teen uses music therapy to improve communication and confidence. Family says music became a breakthrough after ...

“When you’re autistic, it’s really hard to do what everyone else does.” When 22-year-old Kodi Lee took to the stage for his America’s Got Talent audition in May, 2019, the world stood up and took ...

Led by Christian Gold of the Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre in Bergen, the study looked at 364 children with autism. Half were randomly assigned to enhanced standard care for five months ...

April is Autism Awareness Month and one metro Atlanta family says music therapy has helped their son find confidence and a ...

My 28-year-old severely autistic son Nat is a front man in a rock band. Yes, you read that right. And it's a good band, that sometimes is paid for gigs. Yet in Real Life Nat speaks with great ...

Kenny Bujarski, 43, has had a rough week emotionally and lies curled up on a couch, covered head to toe with a heavy yellow blanket. LaShauna White, 27, rocks frantically, lamenting, "We're not doing ...

PHOENIX — On a quiet afternoon inside Higher Octave Healing, a Tempe-based nonprofit, 12-year-old Siena settles onto a bright blue yoga ball as music therapist Carly Jacobs kneels across from her.

Music therapists can read minds. Can cure without words or medicine. And I promise they are not magic, merely superhuman. Music therapy is the purposeful use of musical stimuli to pursue therapeutic ...

Gateway Academy in Phoenix uses music therapy to help autistic students develop social and emotional skills. Students in the program present a graduation concert. This year they'll play "All Star." ...

Music Therapy is an evidence-based clinical health profession, in which a Board Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC), utilizes music within a therapeutic relationship, to address non-musical goals, such ...