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Low Vision Guide: Listening to Music

April 30, 2026 by Kimi Mitchell.

This resource provides therapists with a streamlined, high-contrast guide to help clients with low vision maintain independence through accessible music technology. It offers practical, jargon-free instructions on using voice commands and simplified interfaces to reduce the cognitive and visual load of digital navigation.

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Songs for Moving and Talking (with Spotify playlist)

February 28, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.

Music can transform therapy sessions, adding energy, focus, and creativity while supporting essential developmental skills. This Spotify playlist is designed to help therapists engage children through fun, interactive songs that encourage movement, social-emotional growth, and language development. With a variety of tempos, styles, and themes, these tracks provide adaptable tools to enhance therapy goals and make sessions both effective and enjoyable for kids of all ages.

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Rhythm, Music, Language, and the Brain

January 5, 2022 by Megan Berg.

Based on the course Beat the Beat: Rhythm-Based Intervention for Communication Disorders by Dr. Yune S. Lee, this handout provides an overview of the dopaminergic system and its effect on temporal processing as related to speech and language. The handout describes the effect of DRD2 polymorphism (TaqIA).

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Promoting Early Language Through Songs and Nursery Rhymes

January 4, 2022 by Megan Berg.

Often, parents, caregivers, and therapists find songs or nursery rhymes to be a simple or single layer activity when in fact they can provide a rich language experience. This resource gives ideas on how parents and clinicians can model and use songs and nursery rhymes to promote early language with the birth-3 population.

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Melodic Intonation Therapy

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This handout describes how melodic intonation therapy works with a simplified visual of brain anatomy. Patients, staff, family, and caregivers will gain a deeper understanding of melodic intonation therapy by reading this handout.

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10 Major Symptoms of Left vs. Right Brain Damage

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This handout provides simplified breakdown of the basic differences between left and right brain damage with a specific focus on aphasia, alexia, dyscalculia, apraxia, agnosia, left neglect, insight, inhibition, music, and symbols.

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