Allison Davies - Music and the Brain

Allison Davies is an educator and advocate who specializes in childhood brain development and the use of music as a regulatory tool. She creates online resources for parents, educators, and service providers, and delivers professional development to schools on these topics.

As an autistic individual with attention, sensory processing, and executive functioning difficulties, Allison works within a neurodiversity framework that emphasizes deep acceptance and regulation over assimilation and intervention. She incorporates her lived experience of autism into her educational approach, which she describes as "emotive storytelling mixed with science". Allison's work includes developing online courses, such as "Brains = Behaviours," which has impacted over 2000 families, and founding "A Gathering of Voices," an online membership for adults seeking self-regulation through therapeutic music experiences.