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Hello!
Hello!
My name is Amber, welcome to my Service Learning Project Page! I am a graduate music therapy student at University of Kentucky, and I am passionate about using music therapy to create learning opportunities centered around positive interaction to help families develop skills that help them grow closer together. This project was developed with this goal in mind.
In this section, you will have access to three activities for parents to complete with young children. Each activity is designed to allow opportunities for parents and children to interact in a positive way, enabling communication and interaction focused on three goal areas. Each activity has a different goal: family rules, apologies and gratitude, and emotional expression. These are three areas that can cause friction in every household, but through communication, understanding, and working together, can help create a harmonious family environment.
Family Rules Song
Family Rules Song
This activity creates a framework for discussion between parent and child basic rules in the household, and why they are important. The discussion will include what the rule is, why it exists, and how others feel when the rule is broken. The activity is accompanied with a fill in the blank song that talks about practicing the rules.
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I Promise Song
I Promise Song
This activity creates a framework for discussion between parent and child to discuss the importance of apologies. It is important for children to understand that their actions effect others, and how those actions make others feel. When children understand the impact of their actions, they can better learn how to make adjustments in the future. This activity also provides an opportunity to move past the negative feelings associated with mistakes of the day, and end the day instead with positivity, focusing on the parts of the day to be grateful for.
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Today I Feel Song
Today I Feel Song
This activity creates a framework for discussion between parent and child about acknowledging and expressing emotions in a healthy way. The discussion will not only focus on identifying emotions, but also that all emotions are valid and important, from happy to sad and even angry. This activity creates an opportunity to discuss with children that while it is okay to "feel the way that I feel", it is also very important to find healthy ways to cope with or express these emotions.
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Service Learning Project Proposal
Service Learning Project Proposal
There were several steps that led to the development of this project. To read the initial proposal for this project, click here!
Community Partner Interview
Community Partner Interview
To gain more insight into this need, I conducted an interview with a special education teacher in my community, who in this blog will be referred to as Mrs. X . To read the full interview, click here.
Annotated Bibliography
Annotated Bibliography
If you are interested in reading research pertaining to this topic, click here for an annotated bibliography I referenced while developing my project!
Reflective Essay
Reflective Essay
This project was developed over the course of the semester. There was a lot of learning, adjusting, and growing involved in shaping it's development. To read about my experience in developing my service learning project, click here.
Getting to Know You
I began my education in music therapy at University of Kentucky in 2018, and finished my internship in 2020. I love working with all populations in music therapy, and was fortunate in my internship to work with a variety of clients. I did a lot of work with children in my training not only in my internship, but also while in school at University of Kentucky. While obtaining my graduate degree in music therapy, I am currently working at my former internship site with several clients, including families and young children. I am constantly inspired by the way music is able to help people grow closer together, while also addressing physical, cognitive, social, and emotional goals.
As a music therapist, there are many instruments I incorporate into my practice. I have a big bag on wheel full of a wide variety of instruments I like to incorporate into sessions with clients! My favorite instruments to play are the ukulele and guitar, and my new fun instrument I've just started learning is called an Otomatone!
Just for fun, I decided to post a few fun photos up here! I love animals, music, shiny things, unique instruments, lots of color, hand puppets, and essentially anything that makes me smile when I look at it!
Forewarning, there's a slight chance I have a soft spot for instruments that picture or look like animals...
This turtle kalimba is so beautiful.
This is Quincy the Quarter Note.
If you have never heard of an Otomatone before, I highly recommend you look them up! They are so much fun!
I may be overly fond of the frog guiros. I want a giant one too.
I wanted a concert Ukulele and finally bought one during quarantine. I've really enjoyed learning to play!
Five Little Monkeys
Five Little Monkeys
Special thanks to my husband for modeling so I could take a picture of these puppets! I love incorporating sensory aspects into music therapy, especially with children!
Tele-Music Therapy!
Tele-Music Therapy!
With the onset of quarantine in the 2020 pandemic, many music therapists moved to telehealth, so we could still work with clients while in quarantine! I always have the music background for music therapy telehealth sessions, but this fall I got to decorate the background even more!
Thank You
Thank you so much for visiting my page! I have a lot of fun developing this project the last few months. I hope you find the activities useful and engaging, and enjoy using them as much as I enjoyed creating them!
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