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MUSIC MOVES Loopy Stanley 2013 World Premiere!
It's been a long time coming, with glitches and scheduling delays galore, but Loopy Stanley is finally here! We had participants this year from two cities in North Dakota (though if you counted the to...
Posted on 5/3/13 at 7:52 PM
STAFF BLOG THE AREA VOICES COMMUNITY "Real Food" vs Processed Food - Areavoices Digest #89
So as I sat the other day spraying cheese in a can on my snack crackers, I began to think "Can this be real cheese?" Well the answer is "probably not." First clue: any cheese that's spelled with a "z...
Posted on 9/19/12 at 2:16 PM
Universal language: Music therapy can be bridge over troubled water 
“Music truly is the universal language,” said music therapist Anna Driscoll. “Whether or not we have the ability to communicate in the first place, music has the ability to bridge the gap. Music is able to express feelings we can’t ourselves.”
By Tracy Frank , July 16, 2012
MARILYN HAGERTY: Woman enables children with music, women with dance
Natasha Thomas is not your usual, run-of-the-mill, young woman. She is a singer. She is a music therapist. And she teaches and performs belly dancing — known as Middle Eastern Dance.
By Marilyn Hagerty , January 07, 2012
Gary Towne, Grand Forks, letter: Honor Costes’ contributions to UND
To make a long story short, Therese Costes both designed the music-therapy curriculum and got it approved, including by two accrediting bodies — the American Music Therapy Association and the National Association of Schools of Music.
Then she ran the program by herself for nine years.
By Gary Towne , September 27, 2011
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UND music therapy Instrumental in passing field's 1st licensing law
VIDEOS: Watch at bottom of articleIn just over a decade, the UND music therapy program has grown from zero students to 45 majors, establishing itself as a go-to program in the region, and working with the Legislature to help pass the country’s first music therapy licensure law.
By Herald Staff Report , September 22, 2011
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Teaching with music
Natasha Thomas and six other music therapists statewide serve 800 clients each week, and demand is growing. It's a field that helps people achieve emotional balance through musical expression. From infants to teens with mental health issues to adults with developmental disabilities, she travels from place to place to see them all. She's loving it, she said, but the profession needs to be more established in the state as it would be under a state law certifying music therapists.
March 16, 2011
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FACES AND PLACES: Emily Wangen
Emily Wangen's job is a perfect way to combine her love of music and of children with special needs Emily Wangen, who has an associate of arts degree from Cottey College in Nevada, Mo., and a bachelor of arts in musical therapy from UND, started using her guitar and voice to help children with special needs when she was a paraprofessional at Kelly Elementary School in Grand Forks. She was working with students who were diagnosed with autism and some parents asked her if she could practice musical therapy with their children outside of the classroom.
September 20, 2009
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‘You sing and dance and your toddler will, too’
They whine. They wiggle. They crawl around the floor. Sometimes, they cling to their parents.
They are students at UND. Their behavior is acceptable because they are the youngest enrolled on the campus. They come every Monday night to a course called Musik Tanz, which means music and dance.
By Marilyn Hagerty , February 08, 2009
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