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Music Therapy
This "sort of" a new therapy for our family. We have always been a very musical family. We love to listen to music, sing together, watch music videos and concerts, and let our children play with musical instruments and dance to music. We never really thought about using it as a tool to help our kids until now.
We started to realize that our 8 year old was sitting calmly after listening to music, and that certain types of music made him react as if it were a cue to sit down, or go to bed. We started using music as a reinforcer at home, and started looking into music therapy for him.
Our 10 year old has been very interested in music since he was tiny. He used to watch CMT videos intently as a baby, and then learned to sing before he could talk. He is a whiz at "name that tune". He can hear a song once or twice and know it. Now at age 10, he is asking to take guitar lessons, wants to join the choir at school, and very interested in Guitar Hero! LOL
You are going to have a hard time finding Music Therapy in Wichita Falls, as there is only one music therapist that I know of. Her name is Jodie White, and I got to meet her at the Autism Conference of Texoma. She is does guitar lessons for Mason once a week, and Christian receives music therapy services from her in school. Here is her website: www.musictherapymeasures.com
This brings us to Music Therapy in school. There are some schools in DFW that have music therapy departments, and that frequently integrate music therapy into students' IEP. Unfortunately, the schools in our region are not very familiar with music therapy. So, if you are wanting music therapy provided to your child as a related service at school, you are going to have to go in prepared, and be ready to fight for it. In our child's case (at a WFISD school), it was not that hard to get him evaluated, but it did require action on my part. You can't just ask for an evaluation without some type of documentation and data that your child responds to music. Do your research, and talk to others who have chosen this therapy for their children.
Resources
www.musictherapy.org
www.preludemusictherapy.com
www.wrightslaw.com (search "music therapy" on their website)
Jodie White, Licensed Music Therapist - Wichita Falls
We started to realize that our 8 year old was sitting calmly after listening to music, and that certain types of music made him react as if it were a cue to sit down, or go to bed. We started using music as a reinforcer at home, and started looking into music therapy for him.
Our 10 year old has been very interested in music since he was tiny. He used to watch CMT videos intently as a baby, and then learned to sing before he could talk. He is a whiz at "name that tune". He can hear a song once or twice and know it. Now at age 10, he is asking to take guitar lessons, wants to join the choir at school, and very interested in Guitar Hero! LOL
You are going to have a hard time finding Music Therapy in Wichita Falls, as there is only one music therapist that I know of. Her name is Jodie White, and I got to meet her at the Autism Conference of Texoma. She is does guitar lessons for Mason once a week, and Christian receives music therapy services from her in school. Here is her website: www.musictherapymeasures.com
This brings us to Music Therapy in school. There are some schools in DFW that have music therapy departments, and that frequently integrate music therapy into students' IEP. Unfortunately, the schools in our region are not very familiar with music therapy. So, if you are wanting music therapy provided to your child as a related service at school, you are going to have to go in prepared, and be ready to fight for it. In our child's case (at a WFISD school), it was not that hard to get him evaluated, but it did require action on my part. You can't just ask for an evaluation without some type of documentation and data that your child responds to music. Do your research, and talk to others who have chosen this therapy for their children.
Resources
www.musictherapy.org
www.preludemusictherapy.com
www.wrightslaw.com (search "music therapy" on their website)
Jodie White, Licensed Music Therapist - Wichita Falls
