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started. Welcome Yasmin to the Autism-AdHD podcast.

Thank you so much for having me.

I am thrilled that you're here.

I'm going to introduce you.

So Yasme White is CEO and founder of Voices Together,

a rapidly expanding music therapy organization,

reaching individuals and students across North Carolina.

She developed the voices vocal interactive communication and social strategies model as a non-directive

intervention that is research-based for people on the autism spectrum and who are otherwise

narrow divergent. Yasmin is the author of a published book by Future Horizons Publishing, titled Autism and the Power of Music,

written to help parents of children with autism connect more fully with their children and help them advocate for themselves.

Oh, so good.

All right.

I know a lot of people are going to be so excited about this episode.

So tell us, how did you get started?

Well, I'm a music therapist by profession.

I was a songwriter before I was a music therapist.

Oh, I love that.

Music has always been really important to me.

I mean, when I was a teenager, I was singing with my grandmother, and she would access all

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