American Music Therapy Association

This session will feature prominent clinicians and researchers who specialize in medical music therapy for infants and children. It will include presentations on NICU MT research and innovations, music therapy for soothing infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, music therapy for burn treatment and other serious illnesses, pediatric and pediatric intensive care music therapy, use of music therapy in the Emergency Room with children, outpatient pediatric rehabilitation and early intervention, music therapy in physician offices, clinics, and/or day-care for medically fragile children. Counseling methods for stressed parents and teens with serious illnesses will be included. Program development and reimbursement issues for medical music therapy services will be reviewed.