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The imagine podcasts are part of the imagine.magazine – your resource for early childhood music therapy accessible at www.musictherapy.biz. imagine is an annual online magazine sharing evidence-based information and trends related to early childhood music therapy through various media. "In their words..." features experts' opinion, innovative practices and research enriched by sound bites and clinical applications. Topics of the over 70 podcasts address "All About Play–Plat for All," "Technology and Interactive Media," Advocacy in Music Therapy," "Inclusion Practices," Family-Centered Practice," and more. Music Therapists, Early Childhood Educators, Service Providers, Early Childhood Music Educators, Daycare Professionals, Administrators, University Educators, and Parents can benefit from listening to the imagine podcasts.
Episodes
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The Power of Participation
The Power of Participation: Making Music Therapy More Meaningful for Families Dr. Deanna Hanson-Abromeit brings over 30 years of experience to this engaging podcast on parent involvement in early childhood music therapy. She emphasizes the importance of family-centered practices, coaching…
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The Gift of Music
The Gift of Music for Fostering Connection and Joy Dr. Anne Meeker Watson, founder of sing.play.love., shares her expertise as an early childhood consultant and content creator. She discusses how music- and play-based programming helps parents connect deeply with their young children, setting the...
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It Takes a Village
It Takes a Village: Leaning into Parent Engagement in Early Childhood Music Therapy Amy Dacuag, a licensed music therapist and parent educator, shares her passion for supporting young children and their families through music. She emphasizes the power of parent involvement, collaboration, and a...
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Parent Involvement is Everything
Parent Involvement is Everything: The Key to Effective Therapy Angela Adams explores the profound impact of parent involvement in therapy—not just for children, but for parents themselves. She emphasizes the importance of parents advocating for their own well-being alongside their child’s,...
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Music Therapy: Strengthening Our Bond
Music Therapy: Strengthening Our Bond Through What My Child Loves Megan shares her deeply personal journey of using music therapy to support her son, Carter, during his extended NICU stay and beyond. She reflects on the emotional challenges of balancing medical care, family life, and self-care...
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Music as Bridge
Music as Bridge: A Parent Being a Child’s Most Trusted Caregiver Stephanie Leavell brings a unique perspective to this conversation, blending her experiences as a music therapist in medical settings with her expertise as a songwriter for children. In this episode, she explores how music…
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Active Participation
Active Participation: How Parents Help Shape the Music Therapy Journey Music therapy in early childhood is not just a journey for the child—it’s an experience for parents as well. In this episode, Rose Anzel shares her insights on the essential role parents play in the therapeutic process. She...
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Communication Through Music
Communication Through Music: An Accessible Tool for Parent-Child Connection Parent involvement in music therapy extends far beyond supporting a child’s developmental goals—it strengthens the parent-child relationship through meaningful musical interactions. In this episode, Cindy Kraus, shares…
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Gentle Beginnings
Gentle Beginnings: Empowering Parents in the NICU Through Music Therapy Dr. Friederike Haslbeck shares her powerful work with preterm infants and their families in neonatal intensive care. With over 20 years of clinical, teaching, and research experience, Dr. Haslbeck discusses how music therapy...
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Side by Side
Side by Side: Partnering with Parents in Early Childhood Music Therapy Dr. Kirsi Tuomi shares her rich experience as a music therapist, researcher, and attachment-focused family therapist, highlighting the essential role of parents in early childhood music therapy. She reflects on attunement,...
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NICU-MT and Institute Overview
This episode features Dr. Jayne Standley’s responses to the following questions: Can you describe the major initiatives of the National Institute for Infant and Child Medical Music Therapy and the unique role of a NICU-MT Fellow? What key learning objectives are addressed in the NICU-MT…
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Evidence-Based Practice & NICU-MT Music Characteristics
This episode features Dr. Jayne Standley’s responses to the following questions: How do you define evidence-based practice? Are there any possible adverse effects of music therapy in a delicate environment such as the NICU? What specific styles of music are most suitable for fostering neurologic...
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Program Proposal
This episode features Dr. Jayne Standley’s responses to the following questions: What is the first step to crafting a persuasive program proposal? Can you share your best advice for effectively developing a program proposal? When drafting a schedule, what key factors are most important in the...
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Reimbursement
This episode features Dr. Jayne Standley’s responses to the following questions: Could you provide a comprehensive overview of the complexities surrounding NICU-MT reimbursement? Why is it imperative to consider reimbursement when developing a program? What is the potential cost-benefit analysis…
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NICU-MT Benefits
This episode features Dr. Jayne Standley’s responses to the following questions: How does NICU-MT contribute to mitigating stress levels in neonates? What role does NICU-MT play in maintaining or enhancing oxygen saturation levels? How does NICU-MT influence parental well-being and interactions...
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Overall NICU-MT
This episode features Dr. Jayne Standley’s responses to the following questions: Could you elaborate on the significance of fetal development and its lasting impacts on health and well-being? What is the PAL device, and how does it revolutionize care within the NICU environment? What effect does...
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Inspiration and Hopes for the Future
This episode features Dr. Jayne Standley’s responses to the following questions: What key areas or advancements do you feel are essential to future NICU-MT research endeavors? What are your aspirations for the advancement and impact of the music therapy profession in the years to come? If you…
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The Story of an Independent Music Maker
The Story of an Independent Music Maker: An Interview With Crystal King Applying her professional knowledge from assistive technology, Crystal King makes music making accessible to everyone! She challenges the listener to re-think what music making means and illustrates her points by telling...
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Ways of Creating Access Points Into Music Making
Ways of Creating Access Points Into Music Making: An Interview With Dr. Carol Ann Blank Inviting and making people comfortable in music making is the starting point for Dr. Carol Ann Bank when working with young children and their families. In her opinion, children can participate in music making...
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Adaptive Music Making for Meaningful Inclusion
Adaptive Music Making for Meaningful Inclusion: An Interview With Jessica Corwin and Jennifer Kass As teaching artists at the Adaptive Music Program at the Community Music School of Springfield, Massachusetts, Jessica Corwin and Jennifer Kass provide music experiences to learners with various...
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Adaptation Everywhere
Adaptation Everywhere: An Interview With Laurel Rosen-Weatherford Providing music therapy services to clients ages 2.5-26 within a continuum of school settings, Laurel Rosen-Weatherford believes that all students can participate in music making. She creates an inclusive environment that offers...
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Creativity Across The Board
Creativity Across The Board: An Interview With Chelsea Kinsler A team member of Therabeat, Inc, Chelsea Kinsler offers individual and group music therapy sessions as well as adaptive lessons at their interdisciplinary In Harmony Pediatrics Clinic. She is passionate about offering children...
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Adapting in Every Moment
Adapting in Every Moment: An Interview With Andrew Chapman Andrew Chapman is the coordinator of the University of Louisville Music Therapy Clinic where their mission and vision is to make music experiences accessible and available to everyone. He says, “Almost every clinical experience has some...
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Music-Making Can Happen Anywhere
Music-Making Can Happen Anywhere: An Interview With Jessica Baron As the founder of Guitars and Ukes in the Classroom, Jessica Baron has a passion for sharing music with as many children as possible. She says, “So many kids are in need of adaptive services.” In this podcast, she speaks to their...
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Color-Coded Success
Color-Coded Success: An Interview With Miriam Tart As a staff member of Piedmont Music Therapy, Miriam Tart works with children in individual sessions at preschools. Instruments with alternative tuning, adaptive mallets with larger handles or straps, and color-coded instruments and music are what...
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Adapt to Connect
Adapt to Connect: An Interview With Matt Logan Working at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in San Francisco, Matt Logan is familiar with adapting music making to pediatric patients admitted to the hematology, oncology, blood and marrow transplant, and neuro rehabilitation units. Matt’s...
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Find a Way to Make it Work
Find a Way to Make it Work: An Interview With Jodi Click A piano, guitar, and voice teacher, Jodi Click also provides music and movement sessions for young children. Adapting to children’s ability to make music a successful experience is on her daily agenda. In this podcast, she gives multiple...
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It’s All About Relationships: An Interview With Camille Catlett
It’s All About Relationships: An Interview With Camille Catlett Supporting early childhood faculty across the US, Camille Catlett has her finger on the pulse in developing university programs that inform systems impacting infant and early childhood mental health. “It’s all about relationships,”…
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Taking Care of Yourself to Better Help Others: An Interview With Kimberly Sena Moore
Taking Care of Yourself to Better Help Others: An Interview With Kimberly Sena Moore In her teaching, Dr. Kimberly Sena Moore stresses the importance of “taking care of yourself to better help others.” For her students, self-care has reached a heightened importance similar to identifying stress...
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Still Finding Out How People Are Impacted: An Interview With Olivia Swedberg Yinger
Still Finding Out How People Are Impacted: An Interview With Olivia Swedberg Yinger As a music therapist and parent of two children, Dr. Olivia Swedberg Yinger voices their concern for young children under five and their parents struggling with mental health issues being forgotten in the…
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Coping Skills Are Key: An Interview With Maddie Offenberger
Coping Skills Are Key: An Interview With Maddie Offenberger As a medical music therapist, Maddie Offenberger addresses children’s mental health needs during their hospital stay. Presently, many do not have the emotional capacity to understand the current events and stress responses of the adults...
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Focus on Emotional Growth: An Interview With Jessica Heinz
Focus on Emotional Growth: An Interview With Jessica Heinz As a preschool teacher and music therapist, Jessica Heinz has concerns about the snowball effect infant and early childhood mental health could have on children’s life-long development. Many of her preschoolers have lacked early childhood...
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Empowering Parents With Knowledge and Content: An Interview With Katie Ross
Empowering Parents With Knowledge and Content: An Interview With Katie Ross With a passion for supporting premature and medically fragile children and their families, the pandemic sparked an idea for Katie Ross to grow a business with a mission to support infant mental health through parent...
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Pandemic Amplifications: An Interview With Angela Adams
Pandemic Amplifications: An Interview With Angela Adams Giving her perspective as a social worker of infant and early childhood mental health issues arising during COVID-19, Angela Adams says, “Whatever [clients] have been dealing with before, COVID-19 seems to have amplified that.” In this...
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Basic is Best: An Interview With Lyndsay Overton
Basic is Best: An Interview With Lyndsay Overton As a Certified Child Life Specialist, Lyndsay Overton is preparing, supporting, and distracting children of all ages during their hospital stay while also assisting their families in any way she can. Over the past two years, she has witnessed a…
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The Power of Playing to Combat Fear: An Interview With Joanna Cemore Brigden
The Power of Playing to Combat Fear: An Interview With Joanna Cemore Brigden With expertise in play and child development, Joanna has a wealth of knowledge in supporting children and parents. When asked how parents can nurture their child’s mental health, she suggests to simply play with them. In...
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Frame It in a Way Children Can Understand: An Interview With LeeAnn Finnegan
Frame It in a Way Children Can Understand: An Interview With LeeAnn Finnegan Having been involved with early intervention as a service coordinator, developmental therapist, and a parent, LeeAnn Finnegan knows first-hand the struggles that parents of young children with disabilities have faced...
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Children’s Emotional Development and Needs: An Interview With Mary Anna Walsh
Children’s Emotional Development and Needs: An Interview With Mary Anna Walsh As a children’s mental health therapist during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mary Anna Walsh noticed a rise in the emotional needs of children due to the loss of social outlets and disruption of settings and routines. In this...
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Operating a University Music Therapy Clinic During COVID-19
Chris Millett, MM, MT-BC Operating a University Music Therapy Clinic During COVID-19 As the clinical coordinator of the University of Louisville’s Music Therapy Clinic, Chris Millett serves young children in individual and group sessions. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many clients paused…
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Thriving Out of Necessity: Medical Music Therapy on the Pediatric Unit During COVID19
Callie Cowart, MT-BC Thriving Out of Necessity: Medical Music Therapy on the Pediatric Unit During COVID19 Providing music therapy sessions in pediatrics and pediatric ICU units over the past year, Callie Cowart’s services shifted from a patient-centered to a more family-centered practice model...
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Parent Connection: Supporting New Parents and Their Infants During COVID-19
Alexis Ruffner, MT-BC Parent Connection: Supporting New Parents and Their Infants During COVID-19 Reflecting on her music therapy work with premature infants, Alexis Ruffner noted that few things changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, but her newly established Parent Connection community groups…
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The Value Add of Virtual Music Therapy Services
Bonnie Hayhurst, MT-BC The Value Add of Virtual Music Therapy Services The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought many challenges to the field of music therapy, and small businesses were not exempt. Bonnie Hayhurst, a music therapist in private practice, shares how she convinced families to try…
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Getting Through the Pandemic: Flexibility, Pivoting, and Grace
Edward P. Gallagher, MT-BC Getting Through the Pandemic: Flexibility, Pivoting, and Grace The profession of music therapy has a robust curriculum and solid documents providing professional guidelines and requirements. Yet, everything and nothing prepared music therapy practitioners, educators…
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Just Like Normal Preschool on a Computer – Same Yet Different
Lisa Stinnett, BS in Early Childhood Education Just Like Normal Preschool on a Computer – Same Yet Different “Preschool is all about learning, experimenting, engaging, and hands-on activities,” says Lisa Stinnett, a passionate and dedicated early childhood educator of more than 20 years. Since...
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Virtual and Technical Support: The Lifeline to Early Childhood Educators’ Frontline Work
Maggie Connolly, MA in Early Childhood Virtual and Technical Support: The Lifeline to Early Childhood Educators’ Frontline Work For nearly 40 years, Maggie Connolly has supported young children to learn and develop in community-based programs and through innovative leadership in…
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From In-Person to Teletherapy: The More Chaotic, the Better
Lauren Richards, OTR/L, SWC, CLC From In-Person to Teletherapy: The More Chaotic, the Better As an occupational therapist at Amigo Baby®, Lauren Richards usually worked with children and families in their homes, at daycare programs, in parks, the mall, or the dental office. With COVID-19, she and...
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Teaching Through the Screen Instead of on the Screen
Rebecca Vitelli, MEd Teaching Through the Screen Instead of on the Screen Rebecca Vitelli advocates for equitable access to high-quality early education programs for all children that support their development during the first five years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she has provided remote...
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Transformation Under A Mango Tree in Uganda
Cara Smith, MT-BC Umoja Global Community Music Therapy, Red Bank, New Jersey Transformation can happen in the most surprising places, even under a mango tree in a Ugandan village. In this podcast, Cara Smith tells the story of American music therapists visiting an African school who found...
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Blending Performance and Music Therapy in East Africa: Models for Health and Healing
Karen Wacks, EdM, LMHC, MT-BC Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts Samite Mulondo Musicians for World Harmony, Uganda, Africa In this podcast, Karen Wacks describes her 2013 partnership with Samite Mulondo. Together they examined the benefits of music therapy and performance on the...
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Culture, Connection and Music for All: Thai and U.S. Music Therapy Collaboration
Dena Register, PhD, MT-BC Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand Imagine traveling around the world, stepping out of your comfort zone, and finding yourself surrounded by a roomful of children in a Thai orphanage. In this podcast, Dr. Dena Register describes how music therapy students from the…
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About this show
The imagine podcasts are part of the imagine.magazine – your resource for early childhood music therapy accessible at www.musictherapy.biz. imagine is an annual online magazine sharing evidence-based information and trends related to early childhood music therapy through various media. "In their words..." features experts' opinion, innovative practices and research enriched by sound bites and clinical applications. Topics of the over 70 podcasts address "All About Play–Plat for All," "Technology and Interactive Media," Advocacy in Music Therapy," "Inclusion Practices," Family-Centered Practice," and more. Music Therapists, Early Childhood Educators, Service Providers, Early Childhood Music Educators, Daycare Professionals, Administrators, University Educators, and Parents can benefit from listening to the imagine podcasts.
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