http://www.soundtherapy.org.uk music, communication and movement for people with learning disabilities Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:18:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en August is over, and the Music Gym returns to Hastings triumphant after visiting Lancaster and Preston for 3 fun filled days as part of our Roadshow event. http://www.soundtherapy.org.uk/190/ The new Decoda website is up and running at www.decoda.org with news updates and information about upcoming events. There are films of the equipment, and the Music Gym, on the new site and if you want information about the Music Gym sessions in Hastings, there's a link to www.musicgym.org You can sign ... http://www.soundtherapy.org.uk/185/ At Learning Disability Today on Wednesday we ran a draw for Unlocking Music software, a webcam and training. After all the problems with TV companies we didn't want to be accused of corruption so we asked one of the exhibitors to make the draw and we filmed him doing it, ... http://www.soundtherapy.org.uk/183/  Welcome to Julia and Michaela, our new employees at the Music Gym. For regular visitors, who think they look familiar, you're right. Julia and Michaela started with us over a year ago, as volunteers, but as of last Friday they're now employees of Decoda. http://www.soundtherapy.org.uk/180/ This picture captures so well the moment of two people communicating. For some this ability to connect comes very easily and others might struggle a little. With that in mind, Angela Lane, the East Sussex Project Worker for Intensive Interaction (what a mouthful) is now at the Music Gym whenever ... http://www.soundtherapy.org.uk/176/   After the success of the Music Gym zone at Learning Disability Today in Manchester in July, Decoda's been invited to do the same thing at Learning Disability Today in London next month. The exhibition will be happening on Wednesday, November 25 at the Business Design Centre in Islington. There's always a ... http://www.soundtherapy.org.uk/175/  Despite our best attempts to think of another name (Boogiecam? Musical Squares?) we still come back to "Dancing Squares" as that's what they are - squares on which you dance and trigger music. We used to have them in the Music Gym as wooden boards covered in furry fabric. Through ... http://www.soundtherapy.org.uk/173/ Here's the Music Gym team, delighted after winning the award for Innovative Health and Social Care Technology at a dinner in the Grand Hotel, Brighton, on Tuesday evening. As described in the last post, the Decodamaze was developed from the feedback of service users at the Music Gym. It's taken longer ... http://www.soundtherapy.org.uk/172/ We heard last week that Decoda's reached the regional finals of the NHS Health and Social Care Awards, in the category of innovative technology. Our inflatable, interactive maze  grew out of the weekly sessions at the Music Gym. We were aware that not all the members could access the bouncy castle ... http://www.soundtherapy.org.uk/168/ Angela Lane is the local Intensive Interaction Project Manager and last Friday she visited the Music Gym to see how it fits into what she's doing. If someone with severe learning disabilities and/or autism is still at an early stage of communication this is a valuable approach to passing on the ... http://www.soundtherapy.org.uk/165/