There's a great story about the power of music in the winter newsletter of Hospital Audiences, a New York organization with programs that 'inspire healing, growth and learning through engagement in the arts for the culturally underserved." HAI musician Kathy Lord writes about what happened when she and Susan Weber brought their Music That Heals program to a pediatric intensive care unit in a Brooklyn Hospital. As they were singing, a three-month-old boy named Sam, presumed deaf, clearly responded to their music. "Up to this point, Sam had failed every hearing test. All of us watched as he continued to move his right arm in the air and sway with the music." Sam's mother, Carrie, found hope for the first time in the boy's life. She and her husband began to sing to Sam and pushed the doctors to insert ventilation tubes in his ears, sooner rather than later. The persistent musical stimulation helped create new pathways in Sam's brain. Lord continues to work with Sam as he improves. (The newsletter is downloadable as a .pdf.)

Sam's Story

   

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