Sound Starts Music

Hearing stories of how the skills addressed in music therapy have been seen outside of sessions is one of our favorite things! Here is a great example from one of our families!

Make sure to drink some lemonade today for National Lemonade Day! 🍋

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Friendly reminder that today can be GREAT! What's your 🎶motivational jam🎶 today?

We are moving inside!! It’s tooooo hot 🥵
Come on in, same fun, popsicles, instrument making, and drumming! (But with AC!)

GRAPEVINE- tomorrow is the day! We can't wait to see you at our instrument make & take day! Come make some instruments, enjoy some summer treats, and see our new Grapevine center. See you there!

GRAPEVINE- tomorrow is the day! We can't wait to see you at our instrument make & take day! Come make some instruments, enjoy some summer treats, and see our new Grapevine center. See you there!

Our Friendship Social Groups are back this fall! Come join us to develop friendships and learn neurodiversity affirming social communication and social skills for the new school year!

We had a blast this summer connecting and developing meaningful relationships, so come be a part of the fun this September!

Register at www.playhousespeechtherapy.com/groups

The Pediatric Coritcal Visual Impairment Society partnered with a music therapist to demonstrate examples of activities and goals in music therapy with children who are visually impaired. 👀Find their demonstrations by following the link below⬇️
https://pcvis.vision/music-therapy-a-vehicle-for-driving-communication-literacy-and-social-interaction-skills-in-students-with-cvi/

We're excited to see you at our Grapevine Make & Take Instrument Day and Open House THIS Saturday! We will have watermelon and popsicles to help fend off the heat. Let us know if you can make it! 🍉

Did you know that you can now log into your Practice In Tune portal through the Sound Starts website?

The portal is where you can read through your child's past session notes to see the progress they are making!

Music therapy helps improve social skills, such as helping our clients better interact with people around them!

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So many different skills are exercised when learning music; moreover, it can be made accessible to many different learning approaches and skill levels!

Sometimes breaking down a large task into many smaller ones can help to not feel so overwhelmed! What large-scale task can you separate into smaller jobs to help yourself this week?

Mary and Tyler are set up and ready to go in front of our Prosper location! Come and join for our Make & Take Instrument Day from 1-3 PM! 🍉

Dominique CARES , Special Skills Academy and Kingdom Performance has partnered with 𝐔𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐆𝐢𝐟𝐭(𝐘𝐌𝐒𝐋). Our 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝘼𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙞𝙚𝙡𝙙 𝘿𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙚 𝙁𝙖𝙞𝙧 is made possible by these teams prioritizing the opportunity to serve individuals and families impacted by disability. Also share valuable resources in the community.

Please join us for this 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 event.

There will be food, fun, games and basketball. Limited space available so 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐎𝐖 using this link!

https://fs26.formsite.com/f9aaPs/vps5bwxfzl/index

Also, we're looking for vendors to sign up for our resource fair. Here is the link for that:

https://fs26.formsite.com/f9aaPs/flfeyksu9w/index

Our clients always have a great time with Miracle League!

Have questions about The Miracle League of Frisco baseball? Here are some explanations for each of our levels.
Ages 5-22
Games begin Saturday, October 5th at Bacchus Park on Main and Independence street in Frisco.
https://www.friscomiracleleague.org/

Happy birthday to Shaniiq!! Wishing her a great one! 🥳

Sound Starts Music is a national roster internship site located in Frisco, TX! As an intern, you will have the experience of leading music therapy sessions and adapted lessons, receive weekly supervision meetings, work alongside a team of music therapists, gain experience in the center, schools, and community groups, and so much more!

Find out more information at soundstartsmusic.com/internship/

Our team spent the morning getting ready for Back To School with a boot camp! We’re looking forward to another amazing school year! 📚

No matter what you do, we all have the need to practice self-care. Do you practice self-care in any of the same ways as Ms. Kelsey?

Kelsey Clark graduated from Sam Houston State University in the Fall of 2020 with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Therapy. Kelsey completed her internship at Sound Starts Music in December of 2020, and she has been board certified since June 2021. During her time at SHSU, Kelsey worked with a variety of clientele, including preschoolers, a client with Childhood Apraxia of Speech, geriatrics, and a client with Cerebral Palsy. Her primary instrument is the cello. Kelsey has known since she was 12 that she wanted to work with children with special needs, and is excited to work with this population through Sound Starts. In her free time, Kelsey loves writing poetry, binge-watching TV shows (Grey’s Anatomy, The Office, Criminal Minds, and Chicago Fire), hanging out with her cat, Strudel, and her dogs Kujo and Brady.

Happy birthday to our newest team member, Angel! We hope it's a great day! 🥳

Check out 💻www.musictherapy.org for more research!