Tag: singing

Jessica’s House, Downtown Voices

In a world that often moves too fast, Jessica’s dinner table, filled with love, friendship, and music, reminds us what truly matters. I enter my daughter Jessica’s house.  As I walk down the narrow hall, I smile and roll my eyes at the wall, which is lined with dings from Jessica coaxing her wheelchair into three-point turns. I am almost to the dining room when I hear the tell-tale screams and claps.  Jessica knows I am here. And so does everyone else, by the way!

Music Therapy Becomes A Love Language

Music is our daughter Jessica’s love language. She speaks it fluently. Jess is 41 years old, nonverbal, and has a rare genetic deletion (1Q 43-44). She lives in a group home with five other women who have become family. (Article in Today’s My View ) Jacob is Jessica’s music therapist and part of a local […]