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Holiday Activities

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...

Fun with Tambourines

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,...

Time to Adapt: Being Flexible During Music Therapy Sessions

by Linda | Aug 2, 2014 | Autism, Blog, Characteristics of Music Therapist, Multi-needs, Music Therapy Insights, Sensory

The saying, “The best laid plans of mice and men often gone awry”, probably wasn’t written about music therapists or our session plans…but it might as well have been. I have found that flexibility during sessions is as important a quality for music therapists as good...

iPad App: Cause and Effect Sensory Light Box

by Linda | Feb 16, 2014 | apps, Autism, Blog, Developmental Disabilities, iPad, Multi-needs, Sensory

Ok, this winter has been a doozy!! We’ve had weeks of cloudiness, snow and freezing temperatures. It’s hard for anyone not to be affected and get the winter blues. For my students, this has meant irregular schedules due to snow or “cold”...

Rainbow Wrist Streamers

by Linda | Feb 2, 2014 | Blog, Motor skills, Movement, Multi-needs, Streamers

Never underestimate the power of wrist streamers! At the beginning of the school year, I purchased rainbow streamers on wrist scrunchies from Bear Paw Creek, LLC. They work wonderfully with individuals of all ability levels because of their design. Since they are...

First Week of School

by Linda | Aug 31, 2013 | Autism, Blog, Impulse Control, Instrument Songs, Intervention ideas, Multi-needs, social skills, Turn Taking

The first week of school has come to a close and we are off to a great start in music therapy! Many of my students are in new schools or have new classmates; therefore, it was important to encourage social interactions. In order to learn each other’s names and...