MEDICAL MUSIC THERAPY PROGRAMS
Newborn Intensive Care Unit
  • Multimodal Stimulation
  • Parent Training for Multimodal Stimulation
  • Music reinforcement of non-nutritive suck and feeding enhancement (PAL)
  • Counseling for parents in distress
  • Recorded lullabies in incubator
  • Ongoing research projects
Pediatrics / Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
CT scans / Echocardiograms – anxiety reduction/decreased need for sedation
  • IV starts – anxiety reduction, distraction
  • Pain management
  • Counseling and coping skills
  • Family assistance in dealing with special needs
  • Normalization of environment
  • Stimulation
  • “Surgery Buddies”, musical play during pre-op for small children
Oncology
  • Counseling and coping skills
  • Pain reduction
  • Family bereavement counseling
  • Music during chemotherapy
  • Outpatient surgery
Heart and Vascular Institute
  • Stress reduction and life management for cardiac patients
  • Coping skills
  • Pain management
  • Anxiety reduction
General Inpatients (and Geriatrics)
  • Reality orientation
  • “Life Celebration”
  • Pain management
  • Reduce agitation
  • Coping skills
  • Family assistance
  • Quality of life
Adult Day Services
  • Memory enhancement
  • Physical activity
  • Socialization
  • Anxiety reduction

Rehabilitation Center

  • Reality orientation
  • Stimulation
  • Socialization / Communication
  • Range of motion / Physical activity paired with MT
  • Memory enhancement
  • Coping skills
Orthopedic / Neurology
  • Cognitive stimulation
  • Communication
  • Physical activity / Gait training
  • Increase respiration
  • Memory enhancement
  • Pain management
  • Anxiety reduction
Staff Motivational Moments
  • Increase motivation, mood, and staff rapport
  • Educate staff on benefits of music therapy

Parkinson’s Voice Program and Parkinson’s Awareness Choir

  • Improved speech – aumentation of ST exercises
  • Improved vocal intensity, breath support, and pitch range
Outpatient Neurological Rehabilitation
  • Augmenting ST goals
  • Voice therapy with traumatic brain injury and stroke patients
  • Cognitive, breathing, and rhythmic speech goals
NeuroScience Center Support Groups
  • Increased coping skills
  • Increased group relationships
  • Increased motivation
Labor and Delivery / Antenatal Care Unit
  • Facilitation of difficult or extended labor
  • Childbirth education
  • Relaxation and coping with extended hospitalization
Pediatric Rehabilitation
  • Co-treatment with ST, PT, OT – augmenting goals
  • Counseling for special needs, coping skills
  • Increase communication and appropriate socialization
  • Pain Management