News: Performers on the Rise Pair Professional Musicians with Music Therapy Students

Robbin Buford, a music therapist at The Rise School in Oklahoma, plans to pair professional musicians with children with autism and other developmental and physical delays. Buford suffered from ADHD and understands how much music therapy can help with communication and cognition. She uses music to help youngsters gain self-esteem and motor skills. She teaches piano, guitar, and singing. One mother reports of her daughter, "[Her] motor skills and desire to talk have improved in strides ... We are amazed with how she lights up and responds to music ... I've found the heavier the beat, the stronger her response." Performers on the Rise, to happen in the spring, will benefit The Rise School and give wheelchair ballet and visual arts a chance to shine.

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