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December 10, 2013 at 9:21 pm
in reply to: Share some strategies you have used to assure every child in your groups is successful.
ParticipantI ensure success by balancing structure and freedom. Children feel most successful when they discover things on their own so we need to allow for that. Beth–I like your sayings–parents need confidence and letting them know how their kids are succeeding is a big part of that!
December 10, 2013 at 9:18 pm
in reply to: Where will you go from here? How will this training impact your work as a music therapist?
ParticipantWhere will I go from here. I train a lot of interns and teach a child skills class. I will refer folks to you as this is a grounded training with lots of information. I have enjoyed watching you all grow through this process.
December 10, 2013 at 9:15 pm
in reply to: How are you planning on sharing this information with colleagues, administrators and families?
ParticipantAs an arts center owner, educator of graduate students and having an active private practice for over 25 years, this course was a nice reminder of the work we do as music therapists. I am glad that Beth and Meredith have concretized the concepts to be more easily shared with all of you and more music therapists every session. I am proud of their work and it was energizing to me to follow along with this process.
December 10, 2013 at 8:51 pmParticipantThe families I work with like the perspective of how music can be part of their child’s life without the stress of doing the “right” thing. We play a lot in my sessions and I talk about how this play is helping the kids and what they are learning. I am empathetic and accepting while teaching the parents how their kids are OK. Joy and fun are important as the above posters have stated–life can be hard for these parents and to see their kids succeeding cannot be underestimated.
November 13, 2013 at 1:02 pmParticipantSinging-awareness:increased oral motor response to mom’s voice, trust-songs as transitional objects control-sticking to set melodies and words responsibility-choosing songs for self
Playing- awareness:loves sitting on the drum trust:able to grasp independence: loves stop and go and will giggle responsibility: will make purposeful music and wants to learn the letters
Move: trust-reflexive responses to music tempo, trust:accidentally makes something happen–cannot repeat at will control-walking and leaving fgroup when wants to responsibility-can be in group and follow directions
Listening: awareness: will turn to sound trust: prefers certain songs and will calm independence: will have tantrums if doesn’t like the music responsilibity-can be active group member
November 13, 2013 at 12:55 pmParticipantI do use all four of these experiences in all sessions. I always start with singing hello but add instruments and movement at times. We then move and then get instruments out and I end with scarves and listening to me sing a song as we cool down to end the session.
Having a container is important but also having fluidity to change based on what one observes in the group is important.November 11, 2013 at 6:05 pm
in reply to: What was your most valuable takeaway from this weeks’ content?
ParticipantSuch nice reminders that are worth reviewing often. When we work with special needs kids we tend to forget what the norm is. I also like to remind myself of the continuum so not to always put ages with tasks but rather the order things occur.
November 11, 2013 at 6:03 pmParticipantI see reinforcement that being “child Centered” is the best approach to being with the group. I think encouraging parents to use the music as a transistional object to play with their child also helps them to play without feeling overly childish or silly
October 4, 2013 at 12:37 pm
in reply to: Sing and learn some of the songs presented in the video. Share with the board your experiences using these songs.
ParticipantI’m later that you Keeley! Just watched everything this morning. I will be trying the songs over the next week and will get back to you.
October 4, 2013 at 12:35 pm
in reply to: Discuss with the board the traditional and cultural music in your home community.
ParticipantLiving outside Philadelphia mixes suburban with urban. I use a lot of hard core rock and drumming. We have a large community of people from Africa and chants and drums are always a big part of my work. Even with the surburan families-I try to be diverse and expose them to music that is not part of their “regular” american folk song repetoire.
October 4, 2013 at 12:33 pmParticipantI have been working with a newly diagnosed 3 year old> His stages are all over the place but the reminder that trust and independence can occur simultaneoously comes to mind. He wants to be independent but because he still has trust work to do-he vacilates a lot. This lecture also helped me to remember to use minor modes. Like Beth said-this same boy can match pitch much better in minor–that sounds like a study needs to be done.
ParticipantHi there-
My name is Katie Hartley Opher and I have been a music therapist for over 25 years. I have worked with all ages but do treat a lot of young children. I own a creative arts center outside of Philadelphia PA and run typical and therapy groups in all modalities there. I have know Beth for years and want to take this course to see how things are organized in a manner that is helpful to myself and also my teaching of others. I am adjunct faculty at Drexel Unviersity’s Creative Arts in Therapy program and teach the Child Skills course to first year graduate students.I look forward to learning some new things and meeting new people and challenging my own creativity.
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