https://www.musictherapy.org/

AMTA works to support and strengthen the music therapy profession, expand access to music therapy, raise awareness about its benefits, support research, and empower music therapists to serve diverse populations.

https://www.unitedsound.org/

MISSION:

• To remove barriers and foster social change through music

THE PROBLEM:

• Secondary music teachers receive little to no training

• No extra time or staffing to devote to a new population

• Lack of specialized curriculum

THE SOLUTION:

• United Sound provides teacher and student training modules

• United Sound utilizes peer mentors to create a student led music chapter

• The United Sound curriculum includes method books, lesson plans, how-to videos, and more!

https://abcsofmovement.com/

1. Teaches developmentally appropriate fitness for young children and may help combat childhood obesity by laying a foundation of active movement.

2. Engages the whole child in moving while developing literacy skills.

3. Increase in language development while improving motor skills.

4. Teach children basic movement skills like galloping, hopping, and marching.

5. Use during circle time, transitions, APE, PE, or for some outside fun.

6. Great activity to increase body awareness.

7. Especially useful for home instruction, early childhood learning, speech & language development, special education, ELS & ELL programs, Title 1 programs, Head Start, after school programs, resource rooms, pediatric physical therapy and occupational therapy settings.

8. Beneficial for children with special needs such as Autism, Down syndrome and mild cerebral palsy.

https://www.guitarsintheclassroom.org/

GITC started as a beautiful idea to bring hands on music to general education teachers so they could become song leaders for learning. We hoped that these dedicated professionals could make it possible for students to sing in school as a part of learning any or every subject. Because so many teachers wanted to bring music into their own lives, supporting them to accomplish that goal- and to pass it along- became our first mission.

This is a great video that gives some great examples of how Music Therapy is used in classrooms to support students with special needs