The Great Lakes Region (GLR) of the American Music Therapy Association annual conference took place April 14-16th in Indianapolis. ITA staff Jeffrey Wolfe and Jenni Rook were busy presenting and learning about the newest research methods used in the music therapy profession. The conference kicked off on Thursday with Passages, a student-run event for other […]
ITA Celebrates the Publication of the Music Therapy Social Skills Assessment Manual
Written by MTSSA author, Jeffrey Wolfe, MT-BC ITA is extremely thrilled to announce the publication of the Music Therapy Social Skills Assessment Manual (MTSSA), a comprehensive handbook for assessing and documenting social skill development in group music therapy for school-aged children with neurodevelopmental disorders. This publication is available for print through Jessica Kingsley Publishers®, […]
A Recap of the Neurologic Music Therapy-Fellowship Training
By Jeffrey Wolfe, MT-BC This past month I had the great opportunity to attend the Neurologic Music Therapy Fellowship Training, at the Center for Biomedical Research in Music at Colorado State University. This is a 2-day intensive program, endorsed by the World Federation of Neurologic Rehabilitation (WFNR), the European Federation of Neurorehabilitation Societies (EFNS), […]
The Steel Drum Story
How Cultural Heritage Survives and Thrives through the Arts By Jeff Wolfe, MT-BC, and Keith Whipple, MA, RDT African Diaspora began as the voluntary and involuntary migration of peoples out of Africa to all corners of the world. The international slave trade destroyed lives and communities and ripped apart individuals and their families. Millions of […]
How Does Music Change the Brain?
A Recap of the Neurologic Music Therapy-Fellowship Training By Jeffrey Wolfe This past month I had the great opportunity to attend the Neurologic Music Therapy Fellowship Training, at the Center for Biomedical Research in Music at Colorado State University. This is a 2-day intensive program, endorsed by the World Federation of Neurologic Rehabilitation (WFNR), the […]