Music Program Consultation Team
- Kathleen M. Howland, Ph.D.
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For over 25 years, Kathleen M. Howland has sought to understand the effects of music on the mind and body. She has synthesized information from the fields of neurology, psychology, child development and anthropology to better understand the importance of the arts to our human potentiality.
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- Vicki LaRiccia
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Vicki LaRiccia is a special educator at Brookline Public Schools. She is currently working with a student diagnosed with autism and has helped other children on the spectrum in their music instruction, with guitar, cello and piano. Teaching children with autism and music are her two passions in life.
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- Stephen Shore
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In addition to working with children and talking about life on the autism spectrum, Dr. Shore presents and consults internationally on adult issues pertinent to education, relationships, employment, advocacy, and disclosure as discussed in his books Beyond the Wall: Personal Experiences with Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Ask and Tell: Self-advocacy and Disclosure for People on the Autism Spectrum, and the critically acclaimed Understanding Autism for Dummies.
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- Matt Savage
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In 2000, when Matt Savage was just 8 years old, he played piano for Dave Brubeck and jammed at a sound session with Chick Corea and his sidemen, Avishai Cohen and Jeff Ballard. The following year he was invited to a sound check to jam with jazz great McCoy Tyner and his sidemen, Avery Sharpe and Al Foster. In 2003, at the age of 11, Matt debuted at the famed Blue Note jazz club in Manhattan and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC with his own band, the Matt Savage Trio.
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