5 Music Activities to Bond with Your Preschooler
1. Identify Emotions Game Sing in front of a mirror to practice what feelings look like on our faces. For example, sing “If you’re happy...
5 Music Activities to Bond with Your Baby
1. Encourage Expression Sometimes when babies are born they need lots of help to process all the new feelings and sensations. After your...
Meet the Team
Life On Music is thrilled to introduce our expanded team of music therapists! Katie Schripsema, MT-BC Katie is a board-certified music...
What's Virtual Music Therapy?
Despite the disruption to everyday life caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Life On Music team is adapting to the ever-changing...
Not-Too-Spooky Music Activities
Music, melody, and rhythm are powerful tools for teaching speech, communication, motor coordination, and school-readiness. Songs...
Summertime Music Time
If you're like me, you're probably enjoying all the new summer pop hits (I mean, Connection by One Republic? Loving it!) But don't forget...
Celebrating World Down Syndrome Day
My absolute favorite-est part of being a music therapist is when a kid "gets it" for the first time in a music therapy session. Once I...
Music Therapy & Autism
Making-music is the only activity that's been shown to engage almost every area of the brain at once. (Band-nerds like me, rejoice!)...
Why Are Lullabies a Thing? Music Therapy with Your Baby
If you're like me, you probably use music therapeutically throughout your normal day. I love listening to accoustic music as I walk to my...
What's Music Therapy?
Ah, the question music therapists have been trying to answer for over 40 years. Music therapy is a lot of things. To oversimplify it,...
