Category: Music

  • A Shocking Silence

    A Shocking Silence

    Billy was thirty five years old when we met, he lived in a residential care home with two other men who had severe learning disabilities. I was told, ‘Billy doesn’t talk, he hasn’t said anything for years’. When I questioned further, they believed that he understood what was said to him. Tragically, when Billy was…

  • Healing for Adults with Learning Disability.

    Healing for Adults with Learning Disability.

    EMPOWERING THE CLIENT Orthodox symptom focused therapy that endeavours to address impaired communication and social interaction, will not be effective in the long term, unless the feelings of the client and their support team are acknowledged, accepted and prioritised.  Initially, as a speech and language therapist and later as principal and senior tutor therapist of…

  • Missing Grandma

    Missing Grandma

    Ten year old Henry, was referred to me by his paediatrician who was concerned about his deteriorating health.  She  wondered if Henry was still grieving for his grandmother, who had unexpectedly died twelve months earlier. Henry had had a close relationship with his Grandma and both he and his mother would have been traumatised by…

  • My name’s Norman

    My name’s Norman

    Norman, a forty eight year old man with learning disabilities, was also blind.  He was small in stature and looked permanently worried. I was told that his vision had been severely impaired after he had sustained a detached retina in both eyes at the age of 43. Unfortunately, he had refused to stay in bed…

  • Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

    Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

    Having worked for several years in a school for children who were severely physically and intellectually disabled, I came to the conclusion that children with communication impairment prefer to be involved with music, movement and play rather than those activities that have an expectation of interaction. However when there is a difficulty with communication, the…

  • Healing a Stammer Revealed Hidden Talents

    Healing a Stammer Revealed Hidden Talents

    When Paul was referred to me, I was in the midst of juggling my work as a speech and language therapist within the NHS in the north of England with my Academy of Spiritual Sciences Post Grad holistic therapy training.  I received an urgent telephone call from Paul’s sister asking for help with her brother…

  • Yellow is a Feeling

    Yellow is a Feeling

    Jim had learning disabilities and lived in a Residential Home with five other men. He was in his early fifties and was referred to me with anxiety and depression in the hope that I could discover what was causing his unhappiness.  Jim had a very limited vocabulary of single words.  A word he used continuously…