{"id":544346,"date":"2026-03-18T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544346\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:03:08","slug":"bts-suga-co-authors-music-based-therapy-manual-for-children-with-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544346\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217; Suga co-authors music-based therapy manual for children with autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Suga will be happy to know that the artist is showing off multiple talents beyond music. The BTS member has co-authored a manual for a music-based therapy programme aimed at supporting children and adolescents with autism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Titled MIND Program, the book is available for pre-order with a wider release in bookstores across South Korea expected on Thursday (Mar 19), Severance Hospital in Seoul announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The book was co-authored by Suga, whose real name is Min Yoon-gi, and a research team chaired by Professor Cheon Keun-ah, a psychiatry professor at Yonsei University College of Medicine\u2019s Severance Hospital, who is also the lead author.<\/p>\n<p>MIND \u2013 which stands for Music, Interaction, Network and Diversity \u2013 is a music-based therapeutic framework designed to help children with autism build social and communication skills.<\/p>\n<p>The MIND Program focuses on interaction through music. Activities such as playing instruments and participating in ensemble sessions are used to help children develop skills like listening, turn-taking and coordination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans of Suga will be happy to know that the artist is showing off multiple talents beyond music.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[12329,21765,49,48,3332,75,341,18262],"class_list":["post-544346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-autism","tag-bts","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}