Shannon Laine

Shannon Laine is a board certified music therapist with an extensive background working with children through adults with a variety of diagnoses in both school and community-based settings. In 2006, she founded the music therapy program at the Manchester Community Music School in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she's currently director of music therapy, early childhood, and adaptive lessons. She has worked with individuals who are deaf, blind, deaf/blind, and on the autism spectrum, and who have severe sensory integration disorders, Down syndrome, and cerebral palsy, among others. She has participated in advanced music therapy trainings, including neurologic music therapy and sprouting melodies, a developmental approach to music for children and their caregivers.

A recipient of the Presidential Service Award from her alma mater Anna Maria College in 2019, Laine is finishing a Master of Music in music education (autism concentration) at Boston Conservatory at Berklee with an anticipated completion of July 2022.