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Sound Starts Music Therapy serves clients with 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. Every room includes people reaching goals via music. The backstory Mary Altom, a board certi ed music therapist, opened Sound Starts Music in 2011 in her home. Samantha Lowry-Harmon, Sound Starts Music Therapy clinical director and music therapist, said Altom started giving private sessions after receiv- ing requests from parents of children at a di erent music therapy company where she worked at the time. Altom quickly outgrew her home practice and
Tyler Smith jams with a longtime student during an individual music therapy session. Throughout the session, Smith encourages social skills and prompts proper posture.
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