We are excited to share with you all the wonderful creations submitted by our clients and their siblings for our 2020 Art Competition – “What Music Means To Me”. Thank you to everyone who participated – we loved hearing about how much the families have enjoyed working together on their artwork. Thank you to all […]
We asked our parents to share their experiences and perceptions of Telehealth music therapy through the COVID-19 lockdown period and this is what they had to say.
Tahlee comes to music therapy to assist with her verbal language skills, but in this beautiful video, Tahlee is choosing to communicate and express herself through the piano. Here she has a spontaneous musical conversation with her therapist Iani Sujono, demonstrating
We’ve been powering through our online sessions as more and more clients try our telehealth service. We are delighted that, for most clients, this has been a positive experience and an excellent way to stay connected and keep working on their clinical goals!
We’re now delivering music therapy via telehealth! Due to the ongoing threat from Covid-19, our music therapy services are now fully online! Our Telehealth service has been a great success so far, with excellent levels of engagement and connection achieved in working towards our clients’ goals.
We are very excited to welcome our new team members Catherine Vesic, Grace Elliott and Lucy Morgan. They all come to us with their own areas of expertise! Catherine Vesic completed her Master of Music Therapy at the University of Melbourne, and her Bachelor’s degree in Health Science (Speech and Hearing) at the University of […]
We were honoured to have a visit from our local MP Victor Dominello MP. It was great to have a chance to talk about the work we do and also discuss some of the challenges we face. We think we make a good trio, with Victor showing us his ‘chops’ on the keyboard! Thanks for […]
Iani, Rob and all the team at Sound Expression, with lots of help from Zeb, would like to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas and fantastic New Year! Thank you to all our clients, parents, carers and support workers for being with us this year and trusting in the power of music to
Andy attends music therapy to work on the prosody and volume of his speech. Andy’s speech is often equally stressed and monotone. As music and language are processed in similar areas in the brain, various musical interventions are used to support Andy’s goals.
One of our therapists Pete McDonald has been running Saturday groups at Sound Expression this year with the help of volunteer Izzy. One of these groups includes Sacha, Evan and Tadgh.