School-Based Music Therapy

• Who can make a referral: Anyone on a student’s education team can make a referral for a music therapy assessment (teachers, therapists, counselors, and parents).
• Referral Forms:  Use the button below to view and print the Music Therapy Referral Form. Complete and submit one copy of each to the school district and one to our email at madeline.sings03@gmail.com . 
• We will schedule a music therapy assessment upon receiving the pertinent paperwork from the Committee on Special Education  for children 3 years old or older, or the parent (if it’s a private request).

A qualified MT-BC schedules and conducts a music therapy assessment upon receiving a referral and appropriate paperwork from a parent, teacher, therapist, or the CSE. 

• The assessment includes a review of current sreports, parent/teacher/therapist interviews, observations in a non-music setting, and implementation of music in a similar setting.
• The data collected is compiled and presented in a Music Therapy Assessment Report.
• Recommendations/Goals/Objectives are provided when there is proof of eligibility.

The team will then determine whether or not music therapy services are educationally necessary for the child to receive a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE), and will either add music therapy to the IEP or reject it. 

• After receiving approval to begin services the assigned therapist will contact the teacher, therapist and/or parent to schedule the approved frequency of sessions.
• Once our agency receives the IEP documenting music therapy and a start date, or a private contract from the parent, services will begin.

Download the form, send to your student's school district and to Rose & Rhythm at madeline.sings03@gmail.com