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.
We made the front page of our local paper! One of our directors Iani Sujono won Outstanding Business Person of the Year at this year’s Northern Districts Local Business Awards! An amazing achievement up against a very worthy field of finalists. It is a testament to her incredible hard work, dedication to her clients and […]
September 2019 marks the 4th birthday of Sound Expression’s clinic at North Ryde. So I decided to reflect and look back at our Youtube videos, our website news, our Facebook and Instagram posts – I can’t help but smile and feel rather proud of what we have achieved over those 4 years. One of the […]
Some outstanding songwriting from Sacha, one of our young clients! Ably assisted by our music therapist Pete McDonald, the song was created over several weeks. Discussions were had around an activity in Sacha’s week that he enjoys, the things that happen at it and how it makes him feel. With some improvised guitar accompaniment, Sacha […]
We are delighted to present video highlights of our “Connecting Abilities Through Music” project! It was a huge success with several of our children making the journey from picking songs, rehearsing with other musicians and then performing them beautifully for their family and friends. We have managed to edit the video down to a few […]