How music therapy became the key to literacy

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Erin was ready to try anything to get her 11-year-old son to learn to read. He was avoiding school at all costs, lagging behind his peers and disadvantaged by developmental dyslexia. Then, help came in an unexpected form.

A music therapist invited the Humpty Doo schoolkid to take part in a program called Art Stories.

“Ben was not very comfortable with reading and writing – he gets the letters back to front,” Erin Evans says.

“I have seen music therapy work before in different areas of health and well being, and I was grasping for any kind of assistance to get Ben to enjoy school and do some work in the classroom,” she said.

And so began a year-long journey which saw Ben not only learn to read, but take his new-found passion home with him.

“I used to not read at all, now I do a bit,” Ben says shyly.

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