How we use our voice and our breath in daily situations has significant effect on our respiratory and vocal functions. It is important to gently exercise your voice, but it is even
Thank you to everyone who attended our presentation today at Online Conference for Music Therapy 2018! Here are the slides of the presentation: Kindly share this information with those who may find
ALS / MND affects over 400,000 of the world’s population and kills over 100,000 every year. The ability to speak is one of the basic human abilities and its loss may have strong emotional
It has been a while since I updated this blog: Happy New Year! We have been working hard on finalizing the measurement tools and scales for the study, and currently we are
Updated recruitment criteria have been added to the study protocol. I wish to especially thank professor Emily Plowman of University of Florida for her invaluable advice on these changes. Dr. Plowman is a speech
While researching the effect of a music therapy protocol on bulbar and respiratory functions of people affected by ALS / MND remains my primary focus these days, recent 25th Annual ALS / MND Alliance
When I left my clinical teaching position back in May to pursue the full time research on music therapy for people with ALS, it was exciting, but, at the same time, triggering
I have been asked this question previously, and I realize the unorthodox geography of this research may, indeed, be quite intriguing, so I think I have to make it clear here as
It was lovely and inspiring to visit the MND Cambridge Centre yet again this morning. I got to share some music with the patients and to “shadow” the stellar team. Words are