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Current Events: Local Seminar at Nazareth College
Next week, Upstate Music Therapy Center is excited to attend a panel at Nazareth College titled “Music Therapy, IDEA, and FAPE”. This seminar is an opportunity for parents and educators to learn about music therapy as a related service. While music therapy grows in...
Welcome to Our New Website!
Here at Upstate Music Therapy Center (UMTC) we have been hard at work creating a new website. We hope that with an updated online presence we can spread awareness and knowledge of music therapy. It is our hope to end 2019 on a high note and enter into 2020 ready to...
Guitars For Glory
This summer, my husband and I had the opportunity to go on a music-based mission trip to Belize with a local, non-profit organization called Guitars For Glory (GFG). Originally, they had asked my husband to go as the trip videographer, but when they found out I was a...
Music Therapy at the MATT Fair
Music Therapists Erin Valvo, Joel Page and Gina Schuster participated in the 4th annual MATT Fair (Managing Autism Together Today) on Saturday April 18th at the ESL Total Sports Experience in Spencerport. While there, these therapist's met with other...
MATT Fair
Managing Autism Together Today (MATT) is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit organization focused on supporting parents, children, and families affected by Autism. Our mission is to make it easier for families to locate, obtain, and use the community resources that...
It’s Summertime…It’s Time for Music!
We are nearing that time again when school ends and schedules around the home change. Camps, clubs, vacations, sports…so many different activities become a part of your child’s day and enrich their early development. What about music though? When school is not in...
Music Therapy Opportunities for Age 21 and Beyond
While we are fortunate in the greater Rochester area to have many opportunities for our school age students with disabilities to receive music therapy services, once students graduate high school those opportunities are greatly diminished. Many older students...
A Season of Thanks: MATT
This is the time of year when we look at our lives and evaluate what we are thankful for. At Upstate, I know we as music therapists are thankful for the opportunity to be in this profession. We can always rely on each other to be supportive and offer guidance and help...
Community Outreach: Music at Elderwood
As music therapists we rarely get the chance to come together and create music. This may seem ironic but it is true. Working in the school-based music therapy environment we are constantly moving from district to district and providing services to students. Staff...