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imagine is an open-access multimedia e-journal sharing innovative, evidence-informed, and practice-based resources in Early Childhood Music Therapy.
30 Years of Early Childhood Music Therapy
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2010–2025
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For and With Children
imagine 2026, With and For Children, explores how music therapists, families, educators, and interdisciplinary professionals partner with young children through inclusive, rights-based, and participatory practices. Across multimedia features on advocacy, research, clinical practice, collaboration, and creativity, contributors from around the world highlight ways to support children’s voices, agency, relationships, and meaningful participation in everyday life through music.
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Parent Involvement
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NICU Music Therapy
Adaptive Music Making
Mental Health
imagine 2022 gives an in-depth look at Music Therapy in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health. Understand core concepts, strengthen child-parent relationships and connectedness, promote infant and young children’s social and emotional development, build community support, and take care of yourself – all by using music as your primary tool.
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Telepractice
imagine 2021 explores Early Childhood Music Therapy telepractice, field-tested in the online environment, while valuing families’ priorities, beliefs, and contextual factors. Learn about components of the three-tiered service delivery model, get ground-breaking insights into evolving digital interventions with children and families, and find a wealth of resources for your everyday practice.
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Technology & Interactive Media
imagine 2017 gives answers to “what, when, with whom, where, why, how, and how much” questions when using technology and interactive media with young children. Find out how the intentional use of digital music tools with families can offer children new opportunities for learning, communication, collaboration, and creativity.
Around the World
imagine 2020 provides a wealth of information about cultural responsiveness, diverse language learners, trauma-informed care for displaced children, and how early childhood music therapists work around the world. Review information about different societies, laws & policies, and the therapeutic process as well as insights into cultures, traditions, and music, detailed country reports, and valuable resources from over 40 country representatives.
Intervention Ideas
imagine 2019 is a collection of 50 popular song-based intervention ideas composed by imagine authors for young children of all abilities. View infographic displays of research supporting the benefits of music therapy in the five early childhood develomental areas. Musical scores to tap on, audio recordings to listen to, and short video snippets demonstrating successful implementation in everyday life make content accessible to anyone who wants to maximize children’s learning.
Music Play
imagine 2018 explores All About Play–Play for All. Learn about music and the role of play, developmental stages of play, play-based learning, cross-cultural play, environments for play, interdisciplinary play opportunities, and play for children with disabilities and for those who experience difficult life circumstances.
Advocacy
Inclusion Practice
imagine 2015 describes inclusion practices (i.e., access, participation, and supports) that address children’s right to participate as a full member of families, communities, and society. Learn how music therapy interventions can foster a sense of belonging, social relationships and friendships, and support each child to reach their full potential.
Family Practice
imagine 2014 focuses on family practice (including family-centered practices, famility capacity-building practices, and family & professional collaboration). Learn about music therapy interventions promoting active participation of families, information that strengthens their parenting knowledge, and resources that support their child’s growth and developement.
Evidence-Based Practice
imagine 2013 keys into evidence-based practice. Learn about research outcomes that support the effectiveness of early childhood music therapy services, experts’ experiences and strategies of implementing assessment tools, and innovative interventions while honoring families’ values, beliefs, and preferences.
Foundations and Innovations
imagine 2012 features an array of topics representing strong foundational and innovative work. From a tribute to Dr. Clive Robbins who passed in December 2011 to the Keep a Beat math program – imagine 2012 has it all. Learn from pioneers’, researchers’, and practitioners’ daily music-based interactions with young children and their families.
Awareness and Community
imagine 2011 reports about new collaborations and community outreach initiatives. Learn about an early childhood music therapy training program for multilingual families, interventions for language development with at-risk infants, or music and literacy development in young children with hearing loss.
New Beginnings
imagine 2010 is the inaugural issue of the first annual online magazine dedicated to early childhood music therapy. Learn about the goals, vision, and support from leaders in the field of music therapy, early childhood education, occupational therapy, and early childhood music and movement, then dive into the featured topic, Incorporating Music Into Daily Routines: Family Education and Integration, as well as research on early childhood literacy and clinical work.
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imagine 2020
Colors of Us explores culturally responsive and trauma-informed early childhood music therapy through global perspectives and multimedia contributions from professionals in more than 40 countries.
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imagine 2019
Intervention Ideas presents practical, song-based music therapy strategies that support communication, academic, motor, emotional, and social development in young children.
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Archived Newsletters
1996–2009
Explore 14 archived newsletters tracing the early history of childhood music therapy.