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Here is the second part of my experiences regarding the International Association for Music and Medicine (IAMM) Conference 2020. I have already written in part 1 about the webinars that took place during the first day of this music and medicine conference. Additionally for this post, I will be expanding and writing about the second day of the Conference!…
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Music and Medicine Conference
The International Association for Music and Medicine is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year! Along with this very important milestone,…
Thank you so much to Jill Boone, both for supporting Sam’s Fans through her project “Read for a Cause,” and for writing this blog post.
About Read for a CauseAbout Little G’s One Man BandWhy Sam’s Fans?Sam’s Fans and Read for a Cause Partnership
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Reading books with my two boys has always been one of my favorite things to do. …
*We want to start a discussion about how music therapy is adapting to the current situation with Covid-19. Hopefully we hear from you music therapists! If you are a music therapist and have something to share about your work, don’t miss the form at the end where you can share your thoughts with us.*
How does music therapy in the age of Covid-19 look like?Jessica Bogacik –
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From part 1 [Read part 1 here]: “Another night in the hospital. He felt sad and downtrodden, more so than he had ever felt in his life. After lunch on that second day, he was lying down doing nothing, bored, tired, and hurting when somebody knocked on the door. Nobody knocks on the door around here,…
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These are uncertain and scary times. Perhaps I have a good distraction, but I am doing relatively well although some days are harder than others. I think I would venture to say that having been in a situation like this I kind of get it… except for the part where we have a pandemic.
We have been here. …
Blog post written by guest music therapist Jessica Bogacik, MT-BC. Jessica is a Sam’s Fans-supported therapist offering music therapy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. She wrote this blog post to tell us how she’s adapting to the situation with the coronavirus:
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Wow! What unique times we are all living through right now. Music therapists across the country,…
Happy Birthday Sam! Happy 22nd birthday!
Earlier last week I was with talking with a friend and I referred to the birthday saying we would be celebrating. Celebrating. She noticed that perhaps a year ago I would not have said it that way. I might have been more like apprehensively awaiting it to pass, a few more years ago and it was likely called “dreading” the birthday. …
Today’s blog post was written by Mandy McGlone, Nikki’s best friend and Sam’s Fans’ Associate Director.
Nikki and I are best friends from High School. To say that we have been through a lot together is an understatement. We’ve supported each other through new jobs and new houses. We’ve supported each other through bad boyfriends and bad 80’s hair. …
One typical day of summer they took him to the emergency room because of a fever of 104. You never expect these things will happen to you, until one day, a high fever, a stomachache that does not go away, an accident, or another circumstance of fate reminds you how fragile life can be. In the drive to the hospital Mr….
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