[Jillian Brown]

I work with a little boy who just turned one years old a month or so ago. I recognize him as being in the awareness stage. He looks a lot to his mom and dad and older brother during the music and has most recently become very engaged with me and the music. I noticed him making good eye contact, looking at the ukulele/guitar, looking at my mouth and moving his mouth a little. He does a lot of the musical babbling and reaching toward the music. Reflecting back on this after learning more about this stage has made me see that he really is responding a lot! It feels good to know that even though I haven’t been completely aware of what he has been able to do musically at this stage until now that he has been responding well and maybe I’ve been doing some things right.

[Jillian Brown]

My most valuable takeaway was really the breakdown of all the developmental stages and age ranges. It was good to see piece by piece how children develop. I feel like I have a better understanding now and as I was looking at the videos and going through the different age ranges I was thinking of children I know and remembering the things they did at certain ages. It makes a lot of sense.

[Jillian Brown]

I am hoping to bring more developmentally appropriate music therapy interventions in the 1:1 work I do as well as the group work I do. I want to bring more creativity and spontaneity to my sessions. Hopefully after learning everything and after practicing the work for awhile I will have more of an automatic understanding of what to do with any age range. For example, “Here’s a three month old, I know I can do this and this to help foster development and wellness”.

[Jillian Brown]

Hi everyone,

My name is Jillian Brown. I live in Franklin, MA and work at Notre Dame Healthcare in Worcester, MA. I do hospice and pediatric palliative care. Notre Dame took on a grant from the Department of Public Health last May to fund a pediatric palliative care program and the program began last July.

In my clinical experience, I have worked a lot with older adults. I always thought that I would be best suited to working with adults as I never thought of myself as someone that would be good at working with children. Since taking on the pediatric palliative care program at Notre Dame, I have realized that I have a huge appreciation for work done with children and their families. I’m finding that I’m being challenged and am really enjoying the work I’m doing with children and families so much that my opinion has changed drastically.

I want to learn more about the developmental stages of children and how music can be applied to nurture and facilitate growth and well-being. I need knowledge of how to work with some of the very small children that I am working with. I feel that I am doing pretty well with the knowledge I have but could be doing so much better with some quality training that I know I will receive through this course.

I’m really looking forward to learning with everybody here. I’m so happy I signed up!

P.S. Sorry I started my own blog somehow. I must have put all this information into different category somehow. Not the most tech savvy!

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