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“Best” Jobs for the Student Music Therapist

September 6, 2012
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I love getting questions from readers. More often than not, they inspire me to consider something I hadn’t thought of before or to see it through a different lens. I got a question along those lines this week. Maven reader Kate wrote: Before you were an MT-BC music therapist, what kind of jobs were you […]

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Making Music Education Successful for the Exceptional Student

August 9, 2012
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I am the only music therapist in my small(-ish) town of 18,000. The music community here is fairly tight-knit, so when a music teacher is facing a year of working with students with IEPs (Individualized Education Plan, if you’re curious), he/she will likely reach out to me. This happened about a month ago. A friend […]

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Top 7 Favorite Apps and Tech Toys for Students

November 2, 2011
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It’s only been 5 years since I graduated with my Masters, but so much about being a student has changed! Before, I hand-wrote all my class notes and made sure to carry by $80 flash drive with…what?…8 MB of memory from my apartment computer to the school computer. During my undergraduate to graduate years, we […]

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Secrets to being a Successful Music Therapy Student

August 10, 2011
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I got a great question recently from Maven reader and music therapy student Caitlyn W. (@caitlynmarie123), who wrote: I would love if you would write posts directed toward music therapy students. I know that as a college student, I love to hear other people’s stories of their college experience, how they balanced all the classes, […]

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