Main description:

Music therapist Yasmine White shares the insights she's developed after decades of working with children, teens and adults on the autism spectrum, both in private practice and as founder of Voices Together, a non-profit music therapy organization that brings her effective techniques to schools across North Carolina. The techniques featured in this book are designed to bring back the connection of joy, motivation, and understanding that everyone needs in order to truly grow.

As any parent of a child with autism understands, sometimes helping your child can feel overwhelmingly hard. Autism and the Power of Music helps find insightful, practical new ways for you and your child to connect through music, even when it feels difficult. Because music and language may be processed in the same hemisphere of the brain in children on the spectrum, the techniques in this book can help unlock language in an entirely new way. Music becomes a bridge to help children access language in ways other approaches cannot.

Contents:

Introduction
Chapter One: Opening The Space; The 50/50 Approach
Chapter Two: Music is a Place
Chapter Three: Music: A Tool for Connection
Chapter Four: The Many Faces of Emotion
Chapter Five: Communication is Personal
Chapter Six: Behavior is a Story
Chapter Seven: Social Connectors
Chapter Eight: Self-Esteem a Building Block to Self-Advocacy
Chapter Nine: The Big Space: A Place of Limitless Possibility
Afterword
Resources for Parents
Acknowledgments
About Voices Together
About the Author