by Linda | Dec 13, 2015 | Activities, Autism, Blog, Chanuka, Christmas, Developmental Disabilities, hanukka, Holidays, Impulse Control, Instrument Songs, Intervention ideas, Kwanzaa, Motor skills, Movement, Multi-needs, social skills
December is full of holidays that we can build music therapy interventions around. Since I mainly work in school settings, I design activities using secular songs and cultural aspects associated with each holiday. This is also important because it doesn’t...
by Linda | Jun 13, 2015 | Blog, Featured, Instrument Songs, Movement
I recently posted this on Music Therapy Dynamic’s Facebook page, but thought I’d share it here too. (With some added suggestions!) Need an age appropriate song to use with teens or young adults? Check out Dynamite by Taio Cruz! I use it in group...
by Linda | May 11, 2015 | Blog, Music Therapy, Music Therapy Insights
This post is in response to week 2 of the #MusicTherapyBlogger challenge sponsored by Serenade Designs! Challenge #2: Write about something that works for you in your everyday life as a music therapist. I am a traveling music therapist and for years, have...
by Linda | May 8, 2015 | Blog
I was facilitating a music therapy session for children with multiple needs at an elementary school and it had been a great session. After we sang the “Goodbye Song”, a substitute teacher, who had never experienced a music therapy session before, looked at...
by Linda | Jan 15, 2015 | Blog, Instruments, Motor skills
[fb_button] If you are looking for maracas that seem to be indestructible and sound good, I highly recommend Hohner’s Kids S363 Mini Plastic Maracas. I have used these maracas in my music therapy sessions for almost five years and none of them has ever broken....
by Linda | Oct 24, 2014 | Attention, Autism, Blog, Following Directions, Impulse Control, Instruments, Intervention ideas, Motor skills, Movement, Multi-needs, social skills
Tambourines are great instruments because they give instant feedback and are easy to use. This Fall, I taped different pictures of items we see during the season to the front of each tambourine. I used a fantastic new tape I found at our local teacher’s store,...