The Music Therapy Show

Veronica Llanos Butler, MT-BC, MSEd, MT-BC, LMT, NMT Fellow, is our guest this week. Veronica is currently the music therapist and music therapy internship program director at The Rise School of Houston, a non-profit early intervention preschool for children with and without developmental disabilities ages 6 months to 6 years of age.

Michelle Kennemer, MT-BC, Bill Matney, MA, MT-BC, and Mary Lawrence, MT-BC, are my guests this week to talk about the music therapy program in Lewisville ISD. They describe the Consult-to-Program Model and tell about their experiences as music therapists in public schools.

Dr. Ed Kahler is my guest this week, discussing Music Therapy Degree Programs in Universities. Kevin Lindstrom guest-hosted for me, as I traveled back from a meeting with Dr. Kahler.

This week we’re beginning our Music Therapy in Schools Series, as well as taking our weekly look at the history of Music Therapy, our Website of the Week and Music Therapy In Action. Our guest is Krystal Demaine who talked about Autism and public schools.

This week we’re going talk about the 12th World Congress on Music Therapy in Buenos Aires, Argentina with Dr. Robert Krout and the Neurosciences and Music conference in Montreal with Krystal Demaine, as well as taking our weekly look at the history of Music Therapy, our Website of the Week and Music Therapy In Action.

Discussion about upcoming topics.

This show is about music therapy for adults with developmental disabilities.

My thanks to Kevin for being the guest host this week! This show featured the blog: TheMusicTherapyShow.blogspot.com

Interview with Stephanie Shehan, a Neurologic Music Therapist from Austin, TX.

Today, we answered a question submitted by a listener on how to structure a session when a parent or caregiver is participating in the session. * Acknowledge that the caregiver may not be getting his/her social needs met and help the caregiver address these needs outside the session * Share your goals and treatment plan with the caregiver * Invite the caregiver to participate in the session in a specific way For more information, listen to this weeks' show.

This is a discussion of music therapy research and clinical practice using music to assist with relaxation.

Today we will be addressing how music therapists can use their craft to help people with autism and their friends, family and loved ones. We will cover a number of topics relating to music therapy and autism, as well as a great website, FAQAutism.com

So we’ve been doing these shows for a little over a month. Now we have five previous shows in the books and I thought it was time to do a little reflection and evaluation.

Finishing up our look at Performance Wellness, including a look back at last week's Level II training and going into more detail about the program as a whole.

This week, I'm broadcasting from the Performance Wellness Level II Training, so the show is scheduled to occur during my lunch break!