Hello Parents.
My name is Kathy Lindberg and I am a board-certified music therapist in Ohio. I currently have a private practice in which I work with a variety of clientele. I am working on a new website and want to make sure I optimize for keywords that my market would use when searching for my services. May I ask you. If you were searching for a music therapist to work with your child, or you were looking for more information about music therapy, what words and search phrases would you use?
I appreciate your help.
Sincerely,
Kathy Lindberg, MT-BC
Music to stimulate the brain?
Is that alternative medicine?
Hope none would flame you if it was though, it is just that the neurodiversity community tend to deem alternative treatments as quackery.
I would google this string: autism "music therapy"
thank god for people like kathy. i can tell you all that music thearapy is NO quackery. i found music at a time when i was really not doing well, and it was the music that saved my life. without music i would surely still be hospitalized.
as far as a search goes i think you should get an seo. they are expensive sometimes but it really works. id recomend abalone. they are a small family operated firm and they prolly wont charge as much as the big ones.
http://www.abalone.ca/
My son does "therapeutic listening". He wears headphones that play classical music in varying tones/pitches. Its suppose to help him concentrate on voices and block out background noise. He is responding to his name more and hears us asking him questions instead of seeming like he doesnt hear us. I would say its working although he has auditory processing issues so he goes through periods where he wont tolerate the headphones being on - like today
but then he is never forced to do it.
Hi Kathy,
Are you the same Kathy from "Music Therapy Info Link"? Your site is always near the top of search queries for music therapy. I'm in the process of search engine optimization for a new website project also related to music therapy, sound healing, and related fields. A very useful tool for keyword analysis is a free one that Google provides for its AdWords customers. You enter a keyword, or phrase, and it returns analysis of that keyword as well as similarly used phrases related to that search.
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Send me an IM or email if you have any questions about the Google tool. Good luck with the keyword optimization and the new website.
Regards,
Rich
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Hope none would flame you if it was though, it is just that the neurodiversity community tend to deem alternative treatments as quackery.
i like that word for some reason. quackery... ^^
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Singing along with family or friends is a great activity. It used to be that families would get together and play instruments and sing together or to each other. Now people just sit in front of the television. Better yet if they got a karaoke machine and had some fun together.
I can see paying someone to do music therapy for me. I do it for myself.
How does music therapy work? The idea sounds interesting (and I do love music).
My son does "therapeutic listening". He wears headphones that play classical music in varying tones/pitches. Its suppose to help him concentrate on voices and block out background noise. He is responding to his name more and hears us asking him questions instead of seeming like he doesnt hear us. I would say its working although he has auditory processing issues so he goes through periods where he wont tolerate the headphones being on - like today
but then he is never forced to do it.
That sounds interesting. I'm finding that my son is increasingly impervious to questions, or really any conversation that he isn't in control of. His hearing is extremely selective 
and he seems to talk constantly. The speech and language therapists have agreed that he needs support and help, but that could be another 2 or 3 months away. Are therapeutic listening materials readily available?
A lot of times when my parents ask me questions, if it's something complex like what am I going to do tomorrow I usually need a long time, maybe an hour, to figure out what to say and then say it. If it's something like they're asking what do I want on my sandwich, I have a hard time choosing, and also many times I hear the sounds but they don't form words in my mind.
So, this resulted in me becoming less of a picky eater even though I wasn't really picky already (aside from when I was a baby and then a toddler, when variously I would refuse milk in favor of apple juice, and at one time wouldn't eat anything green, then I felt sorry about it because green was and is my favorite color, so I wanted to eat only green things). After all, many times when asked, I would say "you pick" or "don't care" or "yes" or "sure", because I wasn't sure what it was I had been asked.
Nowadays, it's becoming more noticeable as the decisions I make are more important than turkey or chicken, and so I pause and say, "can you repeat that? Slower please." I was very reluctant as a kid, and in elementary school when someone quiet talked I just sort of pretended that I heard them. I really hated asking someone to repeat. It is a lot of effort to ask that. Often I have to sigh as I ask because it takes a lot of energy from me.