A few months ago (November to be exact!) I received a phone call from AmericaTeve, a Miami-based Spanish language news station. They were presenting a series on autism and wanted to close that series with a piece on autism and music therapy. They asked if they could come interview me and videotape me working with a client during a [...]
Happy Social Media Advocacy Month! What an exciting month it was been so far! Last week, Ben Folds declared it #FollowMTWeek and has been surprising and delighting us with tweets and Facebook posts galore. (He even tweeted and posted THIS BLOG POST to his Facebook page!!) This year, the theme for Social Media Advocacy Month [...]
As music therapists, we are constantly advocating for our profession throughout the year. Now there is a dedicated month for Music Therapy Advocacy - January! Last year, I wrote my first blog on music therapy advocacy and am excited to start working on my blog post for this year. Here's how YOU can get in on [...]
I am amazed by the number of articles that come out each week about music therapy. Coming off of advocacy month in January, it is always exciting to see these stories spotlight a different music therapist and a different "type" of music therapy (hospice, special education, medical, etc). I was fortunate enough to be interviewed for not [...]