[Menvi-discuss] Looking to connect with blind music therapists
Jared Rimer, MENVI webmaster
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Wed Sep 10 02:26:31 UTC 2014
Hi Bettye,
Thanks. I haven't looked at the list in some time, but that we kept
around, so I passed it along.
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On 9/9/2014 6:05 PM, Bettie & Bill Downing wrote:
> They all work at schools for the blind so that is something in their favor.
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> On Sep 9, 2014, at 7:54 PM, Jared Rimer,Menvi Webmaster wrote:
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>> I am not sure. Sorry.
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>> Jared Rimer
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Sep 9, 2014, at 16:59, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> HI, Jared,
>>>
>>> Thank you so much for your list. What I'm specifically looking for
>>> are music therapists who are also blind. Are all of these people on
>>> the list visually impaired in some way? I will reach out to them to
>>> check, but a sighted music therapist would not be able to answer the
>>> types of questions I need to ask.
>>>
>>>> On 9/9/14, Jared Rimer, MENVI webmaster <menvi-webmaster at menvi.org> wrote:
>>>> Kaiti,
>>>> MENVI has a full list of Therapists. We compiled them some time back
>>>> to do something with, but we haven't done so yet. This is taken from
>>>> Roster 13's copy that I compiled. Search Music Therapist in the latest
>>>> copy if you might find more.
>>>>
>>>> Contaldi, Ed - Music Therapist, Kardon Institute for Arts Therapy
>>>> 1215 Fitzgerald St., Philadelphia, PA 19148
>>>> Phone: 215-468-3787
>>>> E-mail: edcontaldi at hotmail.com
>>>>
>>>> Curry, Ronald - Music Therapist's Assistant-in-Residence,
>>>> Royer-Greaves School For Blind
>>>> 118 South Valley Road, Paoli, PA 19301
>>>> Phone: 610-644-1810 (school); 717-248-2055 (h)
>>>>
>>>> *invalid*
>>>> Heine, John - Music Therapist, The Missouri School for The Blind
>>>> 3815 Magnolia Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
>>>> Phone: 314-776-3420 X368
>>>> E-mail: jheine at msb.12.mo.us or: johnheine at yahoo.com
>>>>
>>>> Hoisington, Meridith - Music Therapist; Choir Director -
>>>> Minnesota State Academy for the Blind
>>>> P.O. Box 68 (400 SE 6th Ave), Faribault, MN 55021
>>>> Phone: 507-332-3335
>>>> E-mail: murph at aol.com
>>>>
>>>> Johnston, Mary Eileen - Music Therapist,
>>>> Royer-Greaves School For Blind
>>>> P.O. Box 699, Havertown, PA 19301
>>>> Phone: 610-449-7254
>>>> E-mail: lullabio at aol.com
>>>>
>>>> Jordan, Paula - Music Instructor and Early Childhood Music Therapist,
>>>> Cincinnati Association for the Blind
>>>> 2045 Gilbert Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45202
>>>> Phone: 513-221-8558
>>>>
>>>> Lindsey, Rebecca - Music Teacher/Music Therapist, Maryland School For
>>>> the Blind
>>>> 3501 Taylor Ave., Baltimore, MD 21236
>>>> Phone: 410-444-5000
>>>> E-mail: RebeccaL at Mdschblind.org
>>>>
>>>> Molloy, Della M. - Music Therapist/Director, Kansas State School for The
>>>> Blind
>>>> 1100 State Avenue, Kansas City, KS 66102
>>>> Phone: 913-281-3308
>>>>
>>>> Orsborn, Stephen - Music Therapist / Music Teacher / TVI Iowa Braille
>>>> School
>>>> 1808 Schreiber Street, Cedar Falls, IA 50613
>>>> Phone: 319-230-8138
>>>> E-mail: sorsborn at iowa-braille.k12.ia.us
>>>>
>>>> Stiles, Candie - Music Therapist, Kingdom Light Music Therapy
>>>> (Home) 65 South Washington Street, Binghamton, NY 13903
>>>> Phone: 607-727-3238
>>>> E-mail: cstiles at stny.rr.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps someone.
>>>>
>>>> Jared Rimer
>>>> Webmaster
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>>>>> On 9/9/2014 7:08 AM, Kaiti Shelton wrote:
>>>>> Hi, all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm looking to get in touch with some blind music therapists to ask
>>>>> questions about my future career, and I've hit a bit of a roadblock.
>>>>> I have a few contacts who are wonderful resources, and I'm on a list
>>>>> serve hosted by Janet Ingbar for music therapists with visual
>>>>> impairments, but I'd like to get in touch with as many blind MT-BCs as
>>>>> possible and the list serve I'm on is pretty sleepy. Often when I've
>>>>> emailed with questions I haven't gotten answers from that source.
>>>>>
>>>>> So far, I know of an MT from my own town, who I've known since I was a
>>>>> kid, and I recently corresponded with another from Illinois over
>>>>> email. Other than those two people, I don't think I know of anyone
>>>>> who is in the field and works around issues that arise due to not
>>>>> being able to see what the clients are doing, what their facial
>>>>> expressions might be, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> My professors and I are trying to schedule a brainstorming meeting to
>>>>> sort out these issues, and to try to come up with other alternatives.
>>>>> We are planning on utilizing the expertise of the people we are aware
>>>>> of now, but the more suggestions I can find the more options I'll
>>>>> have. Plus, I am a little curious to see just how many blind MT-BCs
>>>>> are out there. With our professional national conference coming up in
>>>>> early November, I'd love to meet up with someone if at all possible.
>>>>>
>>>>> Another issue I'm struggling with a bit myself is how to articulate
>>>>> what I think I'll need to my professors. It is difficult because
>>>>> since I don't have prior experience in this kind of course (practicums
>>>>> where we're graded on how well we play, interact with clients, and how
>>>>> we document clinically relevant things we notice), so it is far
>>>>> different from an English class I've taken for the past 14 years where
>>>>> I can tell the teacher exactly what we need to do to make everything
>>>>> accessible. Hence why I'm trying to get my professors, the MT-BCs I
>>>>> know who are in the field and work around these issues, and myself to
>>>>> work to find a suitable alternative together, but the issue is that I
>>>>> need to convince the professors that I need to learn how to function
>>>>> as a clinician without using visual ways to assess clients. I have
>>>>> some functional sight now, but I'd have to be really close to the
>>>>> clients to see what they're doing or the look on their face, and I
>>>>> can't always do that when working with a group of people. More
>>>>> importantly, I've never had a definitive prognosis for my condition
>>>>> since there are several factors involved, and anything could happen.
>>>>> We do know that it is likely at some point in my life the remaining
>>>>> functional eye I have will need surgery to replace the cornea, and
>>>>> then will have other problems because that's typically what happens,
>>>>> and is what happened to my other eye. I don't have any quantifiable
>>>>> information on it, but the risk of retinal detachment following any
>>>>> surgery on the eye is extremely high. Therefore, I don't want my
>>>>> professors to rely upon the vision I have to get the coursework done,
>>>>> because I don't know if something like that will happen while I'm
>>>>> still in college, or when I'm in the field as a professional, etc.
>>>>> Like everything else in my education (I'm a braille reader, use a cane
>>>>> pretty well, even had some training from World Access for the Blind in
>>>>> the summer months while attending a music program), I think I need to
>>>>> learn to do my job in a nonvisual way, so that I'm not blindsided and
>>>>> unable to do it should something change. I think anything that I am
>>>>> able to document based on what I've gathered visually would be a plus,
>>>>> but it shouldn't be what I rely upon. Pardon my pun. :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions on either of these issues would be really helpful.
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