[humanser] seeking music therapist mentors

[Quinto Sanchez]

hi Ashley,

while I'm not a music therapist. I am a therapist and musician. Those 
concerns of being able to read body language always come up by sighted 
therapist but, that’s just b/c they have been trained as a sighted 
therapist. If you could see of course you would focus on the obvious visual 
cues. However, sighted therapist don't place great emphasis on auditory cues 
such as  speech tonality, brief pauses, suddle sighs and speech rate. 
therefore, I see them being impaired as well. Body language might reveal 
things like anxiety, apprehensiveness, shamefulness, frustration... which 
are things you can also deduce from conversation or from natural auditory 
cues previously mentioned. I wouldn't mind being a mentor to your friend 
even though I am not a music therapist but I am a therapist and a musician 
if that helps.

Quinto


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From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 4:46 PM
To: "Human Services Mailing List" <humanser at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [humanser] seeking music therapist mentors

> Hello All,
> I’m not sure if anyone here does this, but if not, please point me to 
> other places to post this.
>
> I have a blind friend who is going to pursue a degree in music therapy in 
> grad school; he studies now at the conservatory at Shanendoah with 
> emphasis on jazz.
>
> He would like a mentor who has gone into music therapy because people 
> discouraged him from it. He might also teach piano or braille music. So 
> any mentors available, let me know. If you do not want to put your contact 
> info here, write off list please.
>
> I think he is a bright young person with great braille skills and people 
> skills. He is interested in many types of music and wants to help people 
> in a career. Concerns about monitoring clients and reading body language 
> have come up.
>
> Thanks.
> Ashley
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