The Music Therapy Show

Kat Fulton is a board-certified music therapist and Curator of MusicTherapyEd.com, the new website with video courses available 24/7 for CMTE credit.

She spends most of her days managing Sound Health Music LLC, a small team of therapists in San Diego. They work with in medical settings, wellness settings, and with older adults of varying levels of care.

Kat feels SO honored to be a guest for the THIRD time on the Music Therapy Show. She has been riding Janice's coattails in cyberspace for a couple years, blogging, advocating, educating, and helping music therapists get their expertise online.

To get CMTEs at your own pace, no matter where you are in the world, check out MusicTherapyEd.com. You can also see Kat's full bio there.

Tracy Richardson is my guest on September 21. Dr. Richardson is the Director of Masters in Music Therapy and Department Chair at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana. She has 23 years of experience in clinical practice and 16 years of experience in teaching. She has presented and published on the use of songwriting in music therapy.  She created the first Music Therapy Equivalency Distance Learning Program in the United States.

On September 14, I'm talking with Dr. Hayoung Lim. She is Assistant Professor of Music Therapy and Director of Graduate Studies in Music Therapy at Sam Houston State University. Dr. Lim’s clinical background includes working with diverse population including individuals with mental illnesses, developmental disorders, medical problems, neurologic impairments, dementia, hospice, and others. She completed her music therapy internship at Lutheran General Hospital, Park ridge, IL, and worked as a full time music therapist at the Cleveland Music School Settlement.  Dr. Lim also worked as music therapy director at Children’s Health & Education Management, Miami, FL and specialized in music therapy for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. In addition, Dr. Lim has worked as a concert cellist, performing numerous solo recitals and participating in internationally-recognized orchestras in Seoul, Korea and the U.S.

 Dr. Lim’s research focuses on the effect of music on children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, and the effect of musical experiences on cognition, speech/language and physical rehabilitation.  In 2011, Dr. Lim’s book titled “Developmental Speech-language Training through Music for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders” was published by Jessica Kingsley Publisher, London, UK.  Dr. Lim is a board-certified, neurologic music therapist (NMT Fellow) and current member of the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA).  She earned her bachelor’s degree in Cello Performance from the Catholic University of Korea, and master’s degree in both Cello Performance and Music Therapy from the Illinois State University. In 2007, she received her Ph.D. degree in music education with an emphasis on music therapy from the University of Miami.

Lisa is a board certified music therapist who received her Bachelor of Music from Michigan State University. She currently provides music therapy services to students in the Berkley School district.  Lisa was named the 2008 Very Special Arts of Michigan Educator of the Year for her work with "The Starfish Project," which utilizes the arts to promote social skill development for children with special needs and their peers in general education. She has presented at national conferences of the American Music Therapy Association and promotes music therapy education by supervising Eastern Michigan University music therapy students in their field work. Lisa is an active board member for the Kidz Klez Band of Michigan, a musical ensemble of teens that perform throughout metropolitan Detroit. She lives in Farmington Hills with her husband and two sons and enjoys singing and playing a variety of instruments including piano and guitar.

Dr. Dale Taylor, MT-BC is my guest on August 24. He is the author of Biomedical Foundations of Music as Therapy and will be discussing the implications of the proposal to move to a Masters Level Entry on the medical and international perspectives in music therapy.

Dr. Dale Taylor is Professor Emeritus and a former Chair of the Department of Allied Health Professions at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where he founded the Music Therapy Program in 1969.  While completing graduate work at the University of Kansas under such experts as Drs. E. Thayer Gaston and William W. Sears, he was the first to perform research showing that the terms “stimulative” and “sedative” cannot be applied to music, but should instead be used to describe the responses of listeners.  He also conducted the first national study to identify the competencies needed for successful practice upon entering the field of music therapy.  He has served as national Student Coordinator, Chair of both the Certification-Registration and International Relations Committees, President of the Great Lakes Region, Editor of the International Journal of Arts Medicine, Secretary-Treasurer of the International Arts Medicine Association, and he recently completed his term as Chair of the Wisconsin Board on Aging and Long Term Care.  He is perhaps best known as the originator of the Biomedical Theory of Music Therapy which is described in his book, Biomedical Foundations of Music as Therapy, now in its second edition.

I'm talking with Dr. Janice Dvorkin, ACMT, Director of Music Therapy at the University of Incarnate Word. She is a past president of the American Association for Music Therapy (AAMT) and will give her perspective on the move to a masters level entry.

This week I'm talking with Judy Simpson, Dena Register, and Kimberly Sena Moore about how moving to a masters level entry will affect the State Recognition Operational Plan for music therapy.

Rats. BlogTalkRadio cut me off again in the middle of a statement. This is the 4th and should be final segment of reading the ETAB documents that relate to Masters Level Entry. I will continue with the response to the question that was cut off from Sunday's broadcast and then should finish all the questions today. Thanks for listening to this important topic.

In this installment, I will finish reading the ETAB document "Masters Level Entry: Core Considerations" and will begin reading "Masters Level Entry: Frequently Asked Questions."

Because I use the free version of Blog Talk radio, it cut me off before I could finish reading the documents. So I will continue where I left off from yesterday's show.