Imprints Pediatric Therapy, LLC is an in-home music therapy service for children with developmental disabilities in Milwaukee and the surrounding areas.

What is music therapy?

Music therapy is the prescribed, structured use of music by a music therapist to help people maintain or improve life skills in the following areas: communication, academic performance, gross and fine motor development, social skills, and emotional development. In addition, music has the added benefit of the ability to help motivate in the completion of tasks and to increase attention and behavior responses.

How music therapy is applied

When treating children with developmental disabilities, music therapists create programs tailored to each individual client after an initial clinical assessment. Music is used in many forms during a music therapy session: instrument play, singing-based tasks, movement to music, music composition, etc with the focus remaining on the non-musical objectives - not musical performance. When the child is ready, musical cues will gradually be removed so children can transfer skills they have learned with musical supports, to functional or educational settings.

Music therapists credentials

Music therapists receive specialized training by completing a baccalaureate or advanced degree program. Following completion of course work, music therapists complete a six-month supervised internship and are then qualified to take the National Board Certification Exam.