We also support children in settings other than hospices and schools by funding music therapy sessions, providing instruments, giving in-house workshops, and running creative music projects. We have worked with a number of child development centres, hospitals and (as well as our Soundtracks project) schools for children with special needs. Not only do we run our own projects, but we also respond to applications for grants for work of this kind as positively as we can.
After his fifth session he spontaneously sang at home for the first time.
He sings with me in the car on the way here and has started talking about his needs. I never expected to hear him say 'I want to see Mummy'.
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