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#AMTA12 Wrap-Up in Pictures

October 18, 2012

At the time of writing this post, I am (mostly) recovered from last week’s AMTA conference. Normally, I would list my personal conference highlights, but this year? Time to shake things up and show you through pictures… Conference really revolves around the workshops, trainings, and sessions. It’s a time to share, to learn, and to […]

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#AMTA12: A Preconference Preview

October 9, 2012

This post is coming a month earlier than usual, but I’m excited to write it! This week, the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) is hosting it’s annual conference, this year at the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles IL (just outside of Chicago). This is the time when thousands of music therapists from around the […]

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Mommy Mondays: Traveling with Kids

October 8, 2012

This week the American Music Therapy Association is hosting it’s conference in St. Charles IL. In a field where the majority of professionals are women, it may not come as a surprise that there is a fairly continual stream of babies being born. Which also means that at any given conference, you’ll generally run into […]

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Mommy Mondays: Music with My Kids (Part II)

October 1, 2012

In the last Mommy Monday post, inspired by a question from a Maven reader, I described some of the ways we did—and did not—engage our kids in early music experiences. What about after the early years are over? My husband and I made a decision early on that our kids would take piano lessons. They […]

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Employees vs. Independent Contractors: Knowing the Difference

September 27, 2012

I am super-excited to share another fabulous article by music therapy biz whiz Jamie George. Happy reading… Congratulations! You just landed a job as a music therapist! Your dreams are coming true! But your new employer just called you a “sub-contractor”. What does that mean? Are you an employee? What are your responsibilities to the […]

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[PsychToday] Which Came First: Music or Language?

September 20, 2012

Which came first: language or music? Traditionally, music has been considered an evolutionary byproduct of language. Language, after all, is one of the few skills we have that makes us uniquely human. Thus it has the more important evolutionary role. Music is just “auditory cheesecake.” Unimportant. Pretty little fluff. A misunderstood byproduct.But this tradition is […]

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Music with My Kids (Part I)

September 17, 2012

I received a great question from a Maven reader earlier this week: I would love (and appreciate) a future blog post about a musician parent helping your child to learn music. Do you have someone else teach your child piano? How do you combat power struggles? At what age did you have your kiddo start […]

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Standing on Our Own Unique Feet

September 13, 2012

A friend of mine recently posted the following quote on Facebook: For years music therapy has been wearing a mask because of our inadequacy to describe and understand her fully. We disguise her in medically acceptable terms. We speak only of observable data. We superimpose statistical formulae, hoping that if we develop the scientific side, […]

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Mommy Mondays: The Secret Weapon that Makes My Life Work

September 10, 2012

You want to know my primary secret weapon? The one big thing that allows me to be a working mommy? My husband. He rocks. Seriously—one of the biggest reasons why I can do what I do is that I have a husband who is supportive of my dream and who is involved with the kids. […]

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