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What Happens in a Music Therapy Session?

It’s time to feature another Frequently Asked Music Therapy Question. What does a music therapy session actually look like? What happens in a session and if my classroom is able to get the funding for ...

Prerequisites for Music Therapy?

By: Meredith Roman Pizzi, MT-BC This month, I have been asked a number of times by parents, “What does my child need to know or be able to do to participate in music therapy?”  Since ...

“No Momma. No Dadda. No Sing.”

By: Meredith Pizzi, MT-BC Does this sound familiar? "Don’t sing, Momma, me sing." Or maybe it’s not quite so verbal. Maybe your child stares you down until you stop singing. Or maybe they walk over ...

Why I Love Making Music with Children

How could you not love making music with children? I love providing music therapy programs for little ones at public libraries and in our Sprouting Melodies® classes. And I love making music with older children ...

Music for Early Childhood

Music for young children, like music in general, is a unique experience that is unlike anything else. For young children with no language there is still music. For the young child with limited movement, there ...

Roman Music Therapy on Ablevision

Roman Music Therapy Services is excited to have worked on a project with Ablevision of Malden to create a television segment about music therapy. As their website says: Ablevision is a show produced entirely by ...

Music Therapy Assisted Childbirth

Music was the third person in the room. When the contractions were the strongest, the music drew me in. When I felt respite, the music and toning gave me strength. When it came time to ...

Individual Music Therapy for Children

Almost all children respond to music. Music is an open-sesame, and if you can use it carefully and appropriately, you can reach into that child’s potential for development.  -Clive Robbins Roman Music Therapy Services has a ...

Have Instruments, Will Travel: A Day in the Life of a Board Certified Music Therapist at Roman Music Therapy Services

By: Holly Rand, MT-BC Being a music therapist is a really exciting and dynamic job. At any given moment my car has some sort of collection of instruments in it, which leads all of the ...