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BY KAREN CHANEY
Multiple skills are on display as this student plays a song on color-coded bells.
Music therapy intern Lacey Lewis teaches life and speech skills to a student via a ll-in-the-blank ramen making song.
PHOTOS BY KAREN CHANEY COMMUNITY IMPACT
Sound Starts Music Therapy o ers music as medicine At Sound Starts Music Therapy, music lls the air as it lters through closed doors. Opening one door could reveal a drum-guitar duo while another room might contain a client lling in blanks during a song about how to make ramen noodles. The backstory starting with one room and later opened its current space in 2020. What’s happening Individual music therapy sessions, adapted
Community Clinical Director Tyler Smith jams with a longtime student during a music therapy session.
music lessons and Little Jammers—a group music experience for young children—are o ered at the centers. The company also o ers music therapy at schools, neurological care, geriatric and correc- tional facilities. “Music therapy is evidence-based practices to help individuals with a need,” music therapy intern Lacey Lewis said. “It can be cognitive, academic, motor skills, social skills. [We are] using music to help work on goals that aren’t necessarily music related.”
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Mary Altom, a board certi ed music therapist, opened Sound Starts Music in 2011 in her home. Samantha Lowry-Harmon, clinical director and music therapist, said Altom started giving private music therapy after multiple requests from par- ents while working for a di erent music therapy company. Altom quickly outgrew her home practice. She opened a brick-and-mortar location in Frisco
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8360 Warren Parkway, Frisco www.soundstartsmusic.com
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