Ginny is a Research Specialist at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics on the Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Team. Continue reading →

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**

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.