This edition of the MTRB features three research posters presented at the 2010 AMTA conference in Cleveland, Ohio with the specific focus of music therapy and children with autism spectrum disorder. Continue reading
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MTRB at the AMTA 2010 conference – Research Winners
Dr. Burns
Two interviews with research award winners at the AMTA 2010 Conference in Cleveland, Ohio. We taped several interviews in November and feature Dr. Debra Burns from Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis and the IU Cancer Center won the AMTA Research and Publications Award. MTRB’s own Dr. Blythe LaGasse won the Arthur Flagler Fultz Research Award and is the interviewee!
MTRB Podcast #7: Clinicians as Researchers
In this episode of the MTRB Podcast, we discuss how clinicians can become active researchers, including different modes of presenting research, collaboration, and how conducting research augments music therapy practice. We finish with a note about autism and attention, the post from October 24th. First, a reminder that the AMTA conference in Cleveland, Ohio is a few weeks away!
MTRB Podcast #5
Blythe and Andrew recap the ICMPC conference with summaries of selected symposia, have a tweet of the week and music therapy podcast recommendation.
As mentioned on the podcast:
Patel et al. (2009) Snowball, the dancing Cockatoo
The official ICMPC website and program
The Music Therapy Show with Janice Harris
MTRB Podcast #2
We discuss three articles, here are the citations below. We also recommend another music therapy podcast, called The Roundtable, put together by some friends of ours. We finish up by previewing the International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition that we will both attend next week in Seattle, WA, USA. Blythe is presenting on neurologic music therapy and I have NO obligations/committees, etc. so I can attend whatever I want (or throw fish at a market or visit the Jimi Hendrix museum). We’ll tweet a hashtag for all of our tweets from the ICMPC conference soon as well.
1. Reichow, B. & Volkmar, F.R. (2010). Social skills interventions for individuals with autism: Evaluation for evidence-based practices within a best evidence synthesis framework. Journal of Autism and other Developmental Disorders, 40, 149-166.
2. Kim, J., Wigram, T., & Gold, C. (2008). The effects of improvisational music therapy on joint attention behaviors in autistic children: A randomized controlled study. Journal of Autism and other Developmental Disorders, 38, 1758-1766.
3. Pietschnig, J., Voracek, M., & Formann, A.K. (2010). Mozart effect-Schmozart effect: A meta-analysis. Intelligence, 38, 314-323.
Music Therapy Research Podcast #1
Our first podcast – this introduces us and our goals in podcasting about research in music therapy, cognition, and perception. Please comment and send us your thoughts and ideas!