Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine, I am so pleased to welcome everyone to today's ADHD experts broadcast on a topic very close to my heart, music and the ADHD brain.

Leading our conversation today will be Patty Catalano, a board certified music therapist who managed the music therapy program at Music Works Northwest in Bellevue, Washington, and she served as an adjunct professor of music therapy at Seattle Pacific University.

Patty earned her master's in music from Colorado State University, where she was trained in the

neurological perspective on therapy. Her experience includes music

therapy with children and adults with physical and

developmental disabilities, children with autism. and

adults with physical and developmental disabilities, children with autism, early intervention, older adults and geriatrics,

adults with Alzheimer's and dementia, pain management and oncology and individuals with a variety of learning styles.

So we are incredibly lucky and honored to hear Patty speak today on how music sparks, soothes, and optimizes the ADHD brain.

This is just a truly fascinating topic and today we will delve into how aspects of music such as rhythm,

melody, tempo, instrumentation all engage our brains and how they help to activate attention, focus, and regulation.

Patty will explain the research and she's going to take it a step further and give us some specific ways that parents can

harness the power of music to engage and optimize their kids ADHD brains. So before I turn it over and we get started on that I need to

note just a couple of housekeeping items. Those of you who tuned into the

live webinar you may download the slides now by clicking on the event resources tab or section I should say of your webinar screen.

And if you are interested in the certificate of attendance option,

please check your email later on this afternoon

for instructions and a link. For those of you listening in replay or

podcast mode, please visit attitude mag.com and search for podcast 335.

There you can access the slides, the webinar replay,

certificate of attendance option are all on that page.

So without further ado, please join me in welcoming Patty Catalano on this really rich topic of music and the ADHD brain.

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