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date: 22 April 2021

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This article discusses factors that are changing music therapy in schools. It begins with illustrations of traditional music therapy practice in special education, with explanations of the underpinning theoretical frameworks that have shaped practice. This is followed by discussions of new developments in practice that will potentially impact on music therapy in special education into the future. The article concludes with a vision for how the changes in music therapy might be embraced in order to make them even more transparent and effective.

Keywords: music therapy practice, music therapists, special education

Katrina McFerran

Katrina McFerran is a music therapist who attained her bachelor's and Ph.D. qualifications at the University of Melbourne in Australia. She is now senior lecturer in music therapy at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (University of Melbourne), where she focuses on training of registered music therapists and research into music therapy with young people. Her research interests span a range of challenges faced by young people, from disabilities to mental illness. She is also interested in preventative uses of music for health by young people and investigations of how musical engagement can lead to flourishing. She has recently released her first book: Adolescents, Music and Music Therapy.

Cochavit Elefant

Cochavit Elefant, Ph.D., is associate professor of music therapy at the Grieg Academy of the University of Bergen and a researcher at the Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre, Bergen, Norway. She has worked for almost 30 years as music therapist with children in educational and private settings in the United States and Israel. She is the co-founder of the Israeli National Rett Syndrome Assessment and Evaluation team. Her research interest is in music therapy inclusion and intergroup relations in the community in children with and without special needs. She has also researched communication through songs in population groups with neurological disorders such as children with Rett Syndrome and speech in adults with Parkinsons Disease. She has published several articles, book chapters and a book Where Music Helps (with Stige, Ansdell, and Pavlicevic) in 2010. She serves as an associate editor for the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy.

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