Mozart Effect: Does Listening To Classical Music Really Make Us Smarter?
Oliver Sacks, MD, Author, Neurologist

WATCH (Sacks’ discussion of music can be found between the 0:46 and 3:41 marks):

Retrieved from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/mozart-effect_n_886398.html August 3, 2011

What Is Music Therapy?
Ronna Kaplan, MA, President of American Music Therapy Association

This article shares wonderful descriptions of Music Therapy in answer to the common question, “What is Music Therapy?” Read her words here.

“Music therapy uses music prescriptively to provide opportunities for individuals to establish or strengthen connections, achieve transformations, build and expand upon foundations and reach aspirations.”

Read full article here

Retrieved from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ronna-kaplan-ma/music-therapy_b_869439.html, August 3, 2011

Roman Music Therapy Services is excited to have worked on a project with Ablevision of Malden to create a television segment about music therapy. As their website says:

Ablevision is a show produced entirely by people with disabilities. We are a group of video producers dedicated to educating and promoting awareness of the disabled community.

We are really excited to share the work of Roman Music Therapy Services with this great organization and the 44 communities in Massachusetts that receive their television program.

Ablevision was recorded in Roman Music Therapy Services’ first studio located in Malden, as well as on site at Charlestown High School during a class music therapy session and at the Melrose Public Library in March. Thank you to all of those who participated and were interviewed for this special music therapy feature.

The taping was completed in April of 2009 and the show aired in late summer of 2009. To learn more about this great organization, check out their website at www.ablevision.org. They also have a youtube channel at www.youtube.com/ablevision. Please check it out!