31 for 21: I Am a Music Therapist

*I've joined a blogging challenge for the month of October: Blog every day in October in honor of National Down Syndrome Awareness Month (Down syndrome is medically defined as Trisomy 21, and there are 31 days in October, hence the name 31 for 21). My posts will not necessarily be about Down syndrome, but I am writing as a person who 1) loves many people w/Down syndrome and other disabilities and 2) desires for others to be able to see what I see: remarkably unique people with much to offer to the world*  

 

For video Saturday, I found this funny little video.  Probably won't be all that funny to most of you, but just know that music therapists a) have to explain what our profession is a ridiculous amount of times over the course of a lifetime and b) hear NON- music therapy equated with music therapy all the time and have to be patient yet clear as we try to articulate, AGAIN, that we are not music teachers and are certainly not just hospital-harp-players.  This is a very real type of conversation that we have often :-)  So hopefully everyone watching this will be either educated by it, amused by it, or both.