Two Great Sessions:
Music Therapy for Premature Infants
Premature infants are at-risk and have a 50% greater need for special education when they achieve early intervention age. Understanding the problems and needs of the premature infant and uses of music to aid development will assist music specialists and day care providers.
This general session is on Saturday morning, Aug. 7. Dr. Standley will provide an overview of music therapy research with premature infants in the hospital and following discharge. Discussion will include uses of music to stabilize physiological indicators of well being, to increase homeostasis and sleep, to promote language development, and to enhance neurological maturation. After discharge, group music therapy for early intervention teaching social, motor, and cognitive skills with at-risk infants will be discussed. Videotapes demonstrating these MT techniques will be shown.
Music Therapy for Early Intervention with At-risk Infants
At-risk infants need early intervention for the entire array of developmental milestones. Music activities are an excellent resource for teaching across the spectrum of social, motor, language, and cognitive skills since they are uniquely attractive to infants and toddlers, can be taught in a group setting, can incorporate multisensory input, and promote both fine and gross motor abilities.
This session will provide an overview of music therapy intervention with at-risk children between birth and 2 years of age. Discussion will include uses of music to teach social, motor, and cognitive skills, with emphasis on language development and neurological maturation. Videotapes demonstrating these MT techniques will be shown. This topic is scheduled twice.
Jayne M. Standley, Ph.D., MT-BC, NICU-MT is a Robert G. Lawton Distinguished Professor at The Florida State University and the Ella Scoble Opperman Professor of Music with courtesy appointment in the College of Medicine. She directs the Music Therapy program at FSHU, the National Institute for Infant and Child Medical Music Therapy which awards the NICU-MT national certificate, and the Medical MT and Arts in Medicine Programs in partnership with Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare.
Dr. Standley teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in Music Therapy Methods, Medical Music Therapy, Music in Counseling, and the MT Research Seminar. She is an internationally acclaimed researcher and has published extensively in music in learning and music in medical settings with refereed publications appearing in nursing, early childhood, and music therapy journals. Most recently, she has specialized in researched studies investigating music therapy to facilitate medical treatment and for early intervention with premature infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.