MTRB was pleased to record this podcast with Dr. Petra Kern, a clinician, researcher, and educator in music therapy. She is board certified in the U.S., Canada, and Germany and earned her doctorate in music therapy from the School of Medicine at the University of Witten-Herdecke. She received the 2008 national research/publications award of the American Music Therapy Association for her work with young children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Dr. Kern is an active speaker and has been published in Young Exceptional Children, Young Children, Children & Families, Teaching Young Children, the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, the Journal of Music Therapy, Music Therapy Perspectives, Music Therapy Today, and imagine. She is the owner of the California-Based company Music Therapy Consulting. For more details, please visit her website at www.musictherapy.biz.

**NOTE, Podcast will be reposted soon**