UPDATE: Unfortunately my wife’s clips were cut from the segment that aired, but it is still worthwhile watching.
Here is their website url: http://abcnews.go.com/WN
The Segment is called: Person of the Week: Celebrating All Music Therapists
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ABC World News Tonight every Friday has a segment devoted to people in the news. It’s a feature story – not a hard news segment. Tonight the feature is supposed to air a segment about Gabby Giffords and her treatment with music therapy to aid in helping her recover from the traumatic brain injury she suffered when she was shot by a lone gunman back in January, 2011.
As part of that segment, video clips of my wife’s work with a music therapist in Rochester, NY, will also be shown. My wife has been working with a music therapist to help with her loss of cognitive function that resulted from her chemotherapy treatments for pancreatic cancer in 2006. If you have the time, please watch the show, which airs on the East Coast at 6:30 PM EST.
My wife has made a great deal of improvement since she began her work with a music therapist two years ago. If you know of anyone – family member, friend, loved one – who suffers from a traumatic brain injury, dementia and/or Alzheimer’s disease, autism, mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and depression, or any of a number of other other brain disorders, I strongly urge you to watch and then do some research on whether music therapy may be right for them.
