MTRB reported on a Cochrane Review of AIT in August 2010. This review was recently updated – we will review current findings. Continue reading
Author Archives: Blythe
Virginia Darnell Driscoll – University of Iowa
Ginny is a Research Specialist at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics on the Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Team. Continue reading
Dr. Petra Kern
MTRB was pleased to record this podcast with Dr. Petra Kern, a clinician, researcher, and educator in music therapy. She is board certified in the U.S., Canada, and Germany and earned her doctorate in music therapy from the School of Medicine at the University of Witten-Herdecke. She received the 2008 national research/publications award of the American Music Therapy Association for her work with young children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Dr. Kern is an active speaker and has been published in Young Exceptional Children, Young Children, Children & Families, Teaching Young Children, the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, the Journal of Music Therapy, Music Therapy Perspectives, Music Therapy Today, and imagine. She is the owner of the California-Based company Music Therapy Consulting. For more details, please visit her website at www.musictherapy.biz.
**NOTE, Podcast will be reposted soon**
Advocacy –> Recognition –> Access
Since 2005, the American Music Therapy Association and the Certification Board for Music Therapists have collaborated on a State Recognition Operational Plan. The primary purpose of this Plan is to get music therapy and our MT-BC credential recognized by individual states so that citizens can more easily access our services. The AMTA Government Relations staff and CBMT Regulatory Affairs staff provide guidance and technical support to state task forces throughout the country as they work towards state recognition. To date, their work has resulted in 35 active state task forces, 2 licensure bills passed in 2011, and an estimated 10 bills being filed in 2012 that seek to create either a music therapy registry or license for music therapy. This month, our focus is on YOU and on getting you excited about advocacy.
This podcast features Dr. Dena Register and Kimberly Sena Moore, who are the regulatory affairs team for CBMT.
RAS for Adults with CP
MTRB has looked at several studies on the use of music for movement in different populations (see RAS for MS and PSE with children). To add to these, a recent study looked at the effectiveness of Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation (RAS) for adults with Cerebral Palsy (CP). Continue reading
Intoning for Speech in Non-verbal Children with Autism
MTRB reviewed an earlier article by Wan et al. (2010), where the researchers proposed using Melodic Intonation Therapy for children with autism. A recently published paper studied this idea using a single-system design. Continue reading
What is EBP?
Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been a hot topic for the past few years in music therapy. If you have heard of EBP but don’t know exactly what it means, this post will give you the basics. Continue reading
Affect Change in Older Adults with Dementia
Music therapists who work with older adults will often notice a change in affect and interest with music stimuli. A recent study compared music to 25 other forms of stimuli including social interaction, work, or reading. Continue reading
Post-Stroke Music Assist: What’s Happening in the Brain?
There have been several studies that have looked at the use of “music supported” therapy in the treatment of adults who have had a stroke (see Altenmüller et al. 2009 and Schneider et al. 2007). A recent study investigated cortical changes with music supported therapy. Continue reading
MT for Pain in Post-Op Care
Music has long been used as an intervention in the treatment of persons with cancer (see previous blog post). A new study looked specifically at the use of music to reduce pain in women who underwent a radical mastectomy. Continue reading