Last week was Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week here in South Carolina, so we are here to wrap up! Music therapy has the potential to play a role in mental health services for children and adults, so here are three fast facts about music and mental health.
Music permits a person to express themselves non verbally and verbally. If you have ever found yourself at a loss for words, music provides the opportunity to express the feelings that are trapped within. Sometimes we have had experiences or thoughts or feelings that aren’t ready for words. Work with a music therapist can help to address some of those feelings until they are ready to be put into words.
This past weekend, Ms. Laura participated in the Autism Fun Day in Hartsville, SC. We are so excited about the wonderful video footage that was captured of the impromptu drum circle that Ms. Laura and her new friends struck up!
I get a lot of confused calls about insurance coverage for music therapy each and every week. I am dedicating this week’s blog post to laying out the facts and hopefully dispelling some of the myths. Here are my top 6 music therapy reimbursement facts that you must know!
One of the goals of Key Changes Music Therapy Services is to educate the public about music therapy, and I can proudly say that of all our goals, this is one that we meet with an exceptional amount of zealousness.
Blowing on a whistle. Seems like a fairly easy task, right? For many of our clients, blowing a whistle is somewhere on their list of objectives for therapy. Today, we’re going to dig into why blowing on that whistle might be an objective in music therapy, and how learning to blow on that whistle can help our clients to improve.
