Orange, CA (June 2015) – Children’s Music Fund (CMF)
expanded music therapy services into another hospital this month (Children’s Hospital
Orange County) in order to serve the tiniest of patients in need of the healing
power of music. For two hours a week, a
CMF Board Certified Music Therapist with specialty certification in the Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit (NICU), will provide music therapy to infants to help with their
healing needs.
Two of the instruments used in the NICU are the REMO Ocean
Disc, meant to replicate the whooshing sounds of the uterus, and the Gato Box,
which the therapist can play to provide rhythm to mimic and regulate the infants’
breathing or heart rate. CMF Chairman of
the Board, Ara Oghoorian, CFA, CFP® adds, “As these little warriors fight for
their lives, music will give them a peaceful space to fight on.”
“Premature babies respond amazingly well to positive
stimuli. These include a parent’s voice, rhythmic and soft melodic music, and
human touch. These are all things music therapy can provide,” says CMF founder
and President Dr. Raffi Tachdjian. “At CMF, we help bring music into the
hospital.”
About Children’s Music Fund
CMF is a Los Angeles based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide musical instruments and music therapy to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults with chronic conditions and life-altering illnesses and to support research on the medical benefits of music therapy. CMF was established in 2002 by Dr. Raffi Tachdjian, an allergist and former director of the pediatric pain clinic at David Geffen School of medicine at UCLA. Research shows that music therapy can help lesson the burden of pain, sadness, anxiety and loneliness, and create opportunities for self-expression and social communication. CMF currently provides music therapy in eight hospitals, and in 2015 has provided services and instruments to over 750 children.
CMF is a Los Angeles based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide musical instruments and music therapy to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults with chronic conditions and life-altering illnesses and to support research on the medical benefits of music therapy. CMF was established in 2002 by Dr. Raffi Tachdjian, an allergist and former director of the pediatric pain clinic at David Geffen School of medicine at UCLA. Research shows that music therapy can help lesson the burden of pain, sadness, anxiety and loneliness, and create opportunities for self-expression and social communication. CMF currently provides music therapy in eight hospitals, and in 2015 has provided services and instruments to over 750 children.
Contact: Lesley Holmes,
Executive Director
