Personal Life
Deforia grew up in this town in Ohio, the same town as Orville and Wilbur Wright
What is Dayton, Ohio?
At the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, Deforia initially majored in music education and music this
What is performance?
Amanda, a 5-year-old patient, was reluctant to engage with Deforia until she sang 20 verses of this song which includes different animal noises
What is Old MacDonald Had a Farm?
"reduce feelings of helplessness by giving the patient a sense of [this]"
What is control?
Deforia tells the story of a time she refused to eat her dinner of this legume, said to bring good luck at New Year's
What are black-eyed peas?
Deforia re-enrolled in school and planned to earn this degree, but chose to drop out when she discovered she was pregnant
What is a master's?
Deforia developed a choir which sang in these two languages at once, in order to involve nonverbal adults
What are English and sign language?
Deforia's dissertation studied the impact of music on IgA, an antibody in this bodily fluid which helps prevent bacteria from entering the digestive and respiratory tracts
What is saliva?
Deforia had a mastectomy because of a carcinoma, a type of this
What is cancer?
Deforia took her first music therapy course in this year, the same year the first Star Wars movie came out
What is 1977?
Deforia had to be creative because Tammy, an eight-year-old blind patient who was eager to learn to play the piano, could not do this
What is read music?
"occupy some of the brain's neurological pathways and reduce the number of [these] that are available to transmit pain messages"
What are neurotransmitters?
When an IQ test was given to her class, Deforia remembers learning that her score was 106, this many points above "average"
What is six?
After completing her music therapy coursework, Deforia was required to spend six months doing this before receiving her degree
What is an internship?
Deforia encouraged Audrey, a Lithuanian woman, to write a song about her estranged son, but she only wanted to sing about this sea
What is the Baltic Sea?
Listening to music can reduce this (3 correct answers)
What is blood pressure, heart rate, or respiration rate?