I am back to working with preschoolers and I am LOVING it! I recently started a new contract, providing group music therapy at Amazing Kids Club Autism Center, part of True North Wellness Services in Hanover, Pennsylvania. I provide weekly group music therapy for the preschool program, and.... I had forgotten how physical it is [...]
Today we are wrapping up the Music Therapy in Action series with some of my most favorite videos - our Special Performances and Events! I worked for seven years at United Community Options of Miami, facilitating music therapy for children with autism and related disabilities. During that time, my interns and I prepared many different [...]
Last week, I posted about the Music Therapy in ACTION page, and how music therapists can use it to get new ideas and watch videos to see what different techniques look like when implemented. In that post, I highlighted the sections on the Cognitive, Sensory & Motor/Physical domains. But there's more! On the Music Therapy [...]
I don't know about you, but when I'm learning new music therapy techniques, I love to see them IN ACTION. It's one thing to read about techniques in a book or hear about them in class, and it's another to see them being implemented in an actual session with clients. That's why I created a [...]
I've worked with teens for many years and offer a multitude of resources for music therapists and educators based on what I've learned working with this age group. Over the years, I started incorporating one thing at the end of my sessions that I believe helps improve the quality of service I provide. The thing [...]
I can still hear the sound of the waves crashing ashore, and smell the suntan lotion wafting through the air. Ahhhh. I just got home from a fantastic beach vacation with my family. We boogie boarded, built sand castles, watched ghost crabs, fished, and went parasailing (it was our first time!) The coolest part about [...]
Yesterday, was a literal dream come true for me! I got to facilitate Rockin' and Readin' at the Gettysburg Library in Pennsylvania, where I attended storytime and checked out books as a kid. Talk about coming full circle. My family and I moved back to my hometown in Pennsylvania in 2021, and though I continue [...]
I don't know about you, but I love a good session planning theme. I find that having a theme helps me feel more inspired, more creative, and more excited about session planning in general. So when I started getting requests for another Elevate Email Idea Subscription, the wheels began turning for what to offer next. [...]
Over the past few weeks, I've shared how I use pop songs in a therapeutic way with my middle and high school students: To practice affirmations through rap with Bow Wizzle. To work on attention and perception skills using songs by Imagine Dragons and OneRepublic. To move and groove using songs by BTS and AJR. [...]
Have you been keeping up with the Pop Song Spotlight posts? The past two blogs have been about the best songs for working on attention skills with instruments (Imagine Dragons and OneRepublic are part of this spotlight) and the best songs for movement (a few are perfect for the upcoming summer months). Today, I'm spotlight-ing [...]
