tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738070699265994888.post5810667107593688896..comments2024-02-19T02:07:53.121-08:00Comments on Agenesis Corpus Callosum: Marvelous MusicSandie-Matthew's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11713990436763822654noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738070699265994888.post-58197066268481531822010-01-26T06:17:51.340-08:002010-01-26T06:17:51.340-08:00Hi Sandie! What an amazingly comprehensive post a...Hi Sandie! What an amazingly comprehensive post about the benefits of music learning and music therapy - I am going to share the link on Listen & Learn today :) I know that so many parents appreciate you taking the time to put together such useful information, and so do I! Thank you for including me in your list of resources.Rachel Rambachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11736981779249621711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738070699265994888.post-42144645230146670312010-01-25T10:59:30.529-08:002010-01-25T10:59:30.529-08:00Thank you so much for this information. I am curre...Thank you so much for this information. I am currently looking at Music Therapy as an option for my grandson who has a thinning of the corpus collosum. He loves the guitar Jack Johnson and/or singing You Are My Sunshine are the only ways to calm him! he also plays his guitar that we bought for him while on vacation (which I put on YouTube). He is 2 years old, but physically and developmentally the at about 6-9 months. But give him the guitar and he strums away!veronicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16394024552384362679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738070699265994888.post-216467054186150112010-01-25T09:59:58.219-08:002010-01-25T09:59:58.219-08:00I wholeheartedly support music as a means of creat...I wholeheartedly support music as a means of creating alternate connective pathways between the hemispheres and within the hemispheres. Sensory integration O/T therapists are the professionals in this field, and programs such as Hemi-Sync and others help the brain, through low and alternate repetitive rhythms, create an environment that compels change within the brain. Adding other types of sensory input, such as novel gross motor input, increases speech development, as well. From the time my son, with complete ACC, was an infant, I was using music as well as vestibular, tactile, and proprioceptive input, which, I later learned, was sensory integration. The music provided auditory input, touching different surfaces and textures provided tactile input, and swinging, riding in a stroller, and walking, provided vestibular and proprioceptive movement. I also incorporated sensory input through programs such as Kindermusik® and gymnastics.<br /><br />At home, singing in rhyme about daily things I did about the house helped him develop phonemic awareness and thus expand his linguistic abilities. He is now a high functioning 11 year-old, and I credit sensory integration input as being key to building optimal cognition.<br /> I am writing a book about proactive parenting using sensory integration, including music. My current project is one of children's rhythmic poetry about recess.<br /><br /> Bravo to you for starting this blog and article! The success with music, I believe, depends on the sensory threshold of the ACC child. Sensory seekers are more able to tolerate headphones, while certain pitches of music may irritate some other children. This manifests itself as frustration with the particular child. The same child, who may tolerate a lawn mower, may not tolerate the sound of a snow blower. The same is true of Beethoven versus Bach. Some tolerate one versus the other because certain pleasure pathways in the brain light up when listening to one, while not lighting up listening to the other. There was a study done on this and shown on PBS, I believe. The above is my experience.Jennifer Cumminshttp://www.omnibuswriting.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738070699265994888.post-3892027757789057722010-01-25T04:45:57.337-08:002010-01-25T04:45:57.337-08:00Rachel Rambach is now doing online consultative se...Rachel Rambach is now doing online consultative sessions. We had our initial meeting with her last week via Skype and she's working on some custom music for our needs! It's a great option for those of us who aren't in the big city with options for music therapy.Carriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16068608303307043830noreply@blogger.com