PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
The Center for Discovery (TCFD) is a leading provider of healthcare and education services for more than 1,200 children and adults with complex conditions, medical frailties and on the autism spectrum. Named a Center of Excellence in 2016, TCFD has long been a leader in developing new models of care for individuals with complex conditions. Main editors Conio F. Loretto MS, LCAT, MT-BC has over thirty years' clinical experience as a Music Therapist working with children and adults with complex conditions, including multiple disabilities and autism. He is the Senior Director of the Music Therapy program at TCFD. Amanda Ruddy Belcastro, MT-BC is a Senior Music Therapist at TCFD. Over the years, she has had music experiences with students and residents with autism, complex conditions, and multiple disabilities. Along with her clinical work, she supervises TCFD's Music Therapy Internship Program.
A treasure trove of accessible, varied and engaging songs, sensitively written for specific clinical situations by practicing music therapists who are also creative musicians. Music therapists and music therapy students will enjoy using the songs as they are written, but also as an inspiration and starting point to improvise freely to meet the needs of their clients. -- Amelia Oldfield, Emeritus Professor, Anglia Ruskin University; clinical music therapist for 40 years. This therapeutic songbook provides an abundance of creative resources for music therapists and music educators to integrate and adapt in music-making experiences with people across the lifespan. The intentional construction of each song reflects the reverence these therapists hold for each person they welcome into musicking. They create a musical framework that is equally aesthetically inviting and therapeutically intentional. -- Lindsay Markworth, MMT, MT-BC, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapist, Twin Cities Music Therapy Services
