[KJ Miller]

I will take a lot of this information to help me elaborate and adapt a lot of the interventions I currently and plan to use in my practices. Making things developmentally appropriate and engaging for all age groups and developmental levels. I took a lot of interventions away with me from this course and even re-upped and learned new things about developemt all around about development and music-related development.i can not wait to see what gifts and strengths these families and children bring to my groups to benefit themselves and each other.

[KJ Miller]

I am also hoping to use these engage in advocacy events for sprouting melodies and music therapy services to a variety of progressionals, parents, and advocates.

[KJ Miller]

I look forward to continue sharing and incorporating the relationship between music and development into my current practices and continue to educate parents on how that relationships can affect their bonding with their children’s. Both inside and outside of groups. Since even adults have gone through some level of development you can mKe it super relatable to to even their experiences as adults and how we cantinas to develop throughout our entire lives. Which helps adults to relate better with their kids as they learn and develop.

[KJ Miller]

I look forward to helping families come together and bond both within their family systems and a greater community outside of themselves and their systems. I also look forward to educating parents about development and ways for them to engage musically with their children. I also personally look forward to spending time working and being in these musical environments with these kids and families because I love my job. This course has made me very excited to start sprouting melodies classes

[KJ Miller]

I like to make sure I am offering every child the opportunity to participate in a variety of ways. If I’m asking them to contribute to the group I make sure every child gets equal chances to participate in the same or over multiple activities. I also like to make sure I have i fair expectations of what success is going to look like. You could have a session where everyone participated and everything goes as planned or you could have a session where no one does what you planned and they may be running around acting crazy the whole time. But those could be be deemed successful groups depending on whose in them and the related goals. The later group may just be a success because everyone is safe. Another piece of having fair expectations of success is understanding that participation in music looks different for every kid. The child who is most engaged isn’t necessarily the one benefiting the most.lastly, facilitating a safe and comfortable environment in which to be expressive, explore, and participate will help every child be on a better path to success.

[KJ Miller]

One of the obvious challenges is making sure you staying developmentally appropriate for the spectrum of kids your working with. Giving every kid a chance to be both new to the group and developmental skills and honing them now that they have those skills. Especially communicating to parents that just because they may have He skills, doesn’t mean they’re ready to move on to a higher developmentally functioning class. Then there’s also music choices because some kids on the older end of the spectrum may be starting to develop interests in things like tv shows and the themes songs that younger kids won’t want to hear or understand. Also, choosing how to energize a song on the more calm end, or the more energetic side. Those will certainly have a great effect for children of different ages, as well as modal music, keys, strumming oatterns, and more.

[KJ Miller]

SM
Communal, energetic, interactive, developmental, explorative

Instrument exploration – Sit down and play with me song – body movement/exploration song (hand clapping, feet stomping)- “let’s dance” song – sit with me and shake – let’s ride a bike – thank you for your music – Goodbye

Fs
Cooperative, experiential, interactive, warm, flexible

Instrument exploration – hey everybody – where is the music?- rocket ship lap song – shake and stop song (sit with me and shake and now it’s time to stop) allowing for them to recvomend dynamics of the song (shake high/ low fast/ slow etc) – thank you for your music (with handsigns) – goodbye

[KJ Miller]

In my experience I’d describe music for skill building as a little more specific and all picture. I.E finger dexterity, ideifying peers by name, eye contact, being able told a rhythm. Where development is much bigger like appropriate social skills, language development, body coordination/ awareness. Developmental abilities are more essential to every day like and deficits with them make everyday life more difficult where skill deficits are easier to compensate for and work on.

[KJ Miller]

I really like the lp mini chickitas. They’re small enough to a great grip for even infants, and have a great weight and balance to them. They just feel very good to shake and they’re crazy durable and hard to break so they’re a much lower risk than cheap options. I had to constantly give them away because kids refused to let them go. I like frame drums because they’re easily portable and pretty durable. I love the ocean drums from Reno for “first sounds” meant to imitate being in euturo. They’ve just got a very nice timbre to them. I like to have a small djembe and a round tambourine that can fit around the base. You slide the tambourine up the base and set them djembe in your lap and can play both simultaneously and create a much more full environment. I also like to be aware of having the option. To take in a guitar with plastic strings depending on who I’m going to see.

[KJ Miller]

Stimulation is obviously, as many above have said, a varying scale with a number of factors that affect how much and when different types of stimulation are appropriate. For kids of this age they can easily become over stimulated. I said in a previous post that children are supper sensitive to auditory stimulation. Imagine if you’ve ever been running, or working out, or doing chores, or driving, and you end up running to the tempo of the music or accidentally speed up or slow down in your car. Music has a strong physiological effect because it essentially enters into our nervous system. Imagine how powerful that can be for children, on top of all the other stimulation happening simultaneously in the world. The best way to gauge stimulation for children is to watch for non-verbal signs; grimacing, uncoordinated and rapid thrashing/limb movement, red face, crying, irregular breathing patters. These and more COULD, but are not indefinitely, be signs over stimulation. When I worked in a hospital i would always talk to parents about cycling stimulation for their infants and children; for tactile stimulation, light, and sound. Imagine if a nurse turned the tv on and left it going for 4 hours for you, and adult. That would be annoying. And then we must also structure our sessions to flow in and out of providing stimulation. You can just start and suddenly cut off something every intervention. Its best if ti has a natural flow of different kinds of stimulation and energy levels flowing throughout the entirety of the session.

[KJ Miller]

Playful, explorative, dynamic, safe, authentic

1) Your child is exploring, its okays if your child wanders around during the session. 2) You dont have to do anything for your children, theyre all going to participate in their own way. 3) For the most part, we’re going to let them make their own choices. 4) Your child may want to interact with the other adults in the room and do things like sit in their laps, like they do yours, so they can explor other relationships. 5) You can model these interactions and ways of engaging for your child and other children in the room, by doing them throughout the session even when they’re not watching you directly.

Hello: allow kids to explore instruments set in cirecle – Hey Hey “its good to see you today”(Bob Miller hello song); Bonding song; i really liked wiggly,jiggly; moving: Hands to the sky song; stomping song; Cool down; Scarg song/Where is my face; Goodbye song

[KJ Miller]

Most of my experiences with children at this age and developmental level were in the NICU. I would provide soothing services to help during the weaning of drugs and medications, soothe babies for sleep, help reduce respiratory and heart rate, increase oxygen saturation, provide sensory stimulation, and provide social interaction. It was very cool work because they were hooked up to monitors all the time and you could get real numbers seeing how infants were being physiologically effected by the stimulation. I had one infant who was constantly dessating her oxygen levels and when i would come up to see her i could stablize her faster than any of the nurses could. It was a very cool feeling and gave me the chance to show them very hardcore evidence of the why what i did was more than just nice music playing for the babies.

[KJ Miller]

The music therapists role within a community is to help break down barriers that may be hindering the communities development by giving them a single open space in which those barriers can be addressed, expressed, explored or more while providing safe, comfortable, and trusting environments in which to socialize. They also provide experiences to be expressive and explore themselves, as well as others. They also hopefully provide a space in which the community experiences something meaningful and adds positively to their life, even though therapy itself doesnt always have to be about the positive and happy things. People can take those situations in their lives that do create some sort of conflict, and turn it into an opportunity for growth, and the therapist can help to facilitate that process. We can do some of these, as well as many other things simultaneously as well.

[KJ Miller]

Id use these words to describe this first level: Warm, inviting, stimulating (holistically and appropriately), </p>
<p>1) Your baby is going to respond much differently to your voice, no matter how beautifully i sing, because it is YOUR baby. 2) Even though the can’t speak, your babies are still communicating in a variety of ways. 3) Before we get started (or As we come to the end of the session) lets just take a moment to relax breath all together. 4) Have you ever found yourself walking, or running, or just moving to the beat of a song by accident? if music can have a physical effect like that on us, imagine how babies internalize that stimulation. 5) If you have any questions about why we’re doing something, let me know because everyone might benefit from talking about it. </p>
<p>Plan: Hello/gathering: today is a beautiful day lap ride: row it faster (im sure many of us working with children have used similar songs to this one.) gross motor movement: song i wrote called “let’s dance” good for more gross motor movement. Giving parents a chance to stand and make longer stride, big movements with their infants. Cool down: I see colors. bringing out scarves for this can also help to provide that extra bit of light sensory input. Goodbye

[KJ Miller]

For me ny of the patients I see currently, the family needs are normalization; providing an environment in which they get to see their child being a child. They play, they laugh, sometimes they cry, the explore. They need an environment which is comfortable and safe for both them and their child to interact and see each other as developed and developing peoples. This can be especially difficult to find for parents of children who are not developmentally appropriate, have been in and out of hospitals, have demanding jobs, kids with extraordinary needs, and more. Another need of the family I work with are social needs. For both them and their child. Their children (and some of the teens I work with) need a healthy space to use and envelop social skills though interaction. Expression; a facilitated comfortable and safe space to be expressive. Developmentally approximate interventions/activities to help facilitate developmental. Sometimes, they just need a break from their routine. AND WE HAVE A GREAT SOACE IN WHICH TO DO THAT AND ITS STILL SO THERAPUETIC. Some will certainly disagree with me, but that’s the subjectivity of receiving and practicing therapy. And finally some of them just need help finding ways in which to interact with heir children. And we can provide fun, positive, appropriate ways in which they can do that.

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