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The Arts in Psychotherapy: Angelle Cook Research Paper Published
November 1, 2020 Our own Angelle Cook has had a research paper published in the November edition of The Arts in Psychotherapy. Read the paper at Science Direct
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AARP: Bridging Sound and Science: Music’s Role in Healing
February 28, 2020 Survivors who sing Standing over a keyboard at the front of a beige conference room on a satellite college campus in Loudon, Virginia, Sweitzer, a music therapist, addressed the dozen or so adults seated in front of him. Some were joined by caregivers; others came solo. Everyone held sheet music. “Let’s start…
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Loudoun Times Mirror: The healing power of music: A Place to Be offers support, community through stroke survivor choir
Dec 31, 2019 One of the greatest challenges for recovering stroke survivors is regaining a sense of self, and the Different Strokes for Different Folks choir gives new meaning to the idea of finding one’s voice. Tom Sweitzer, co-founder of Middleburg-based music therapy organization A Place to Be, began the choir five years ago to help…
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DC News Now: “Different Strokes for Different Folks” program
Jun 4, 2019 A stroke or traumatic brain injury can have devastating effects on someone’s speech, but Inova Loudoun Hospital is teaching survivors how to talk, and sing, once again. Tom Sweitzer, director of the “Different Strokes for Different Folks” program, explains how music can play a crucial role for those who are recovering from strokes and…
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Antidotes Podcast Interviews Ray Leone
May 20, 2019 The Antidotes podcast visited INOVA to talk to Ray Leone about the work he and our medical team do with the hospital system. Take a listen
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DC News Now: Different Strokes for Different Folks: “Stroke choir” teaches survivors how to talk and smile again
Apr 11, 2019 “I was asleep and I woke up and I said, ‘Oh no.’” Tom Bradfield and his wife, Marina, were headed back from vacation when Tom suffered his second stroke in two years. The first was minor — after a week’s worth of recovery, Tom was back at work. The second, however, had devastating…
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Ray Leone Pens Research Paper For Dartmouth
January 1, 2019 Our head of Medical Music Therapy, Ray Leone, has joined other renowned music therapists in a collection of research papers for Dartmouth College: Impact of an Active Music Therapy Intervention on Intensive Care Patients Read now