How Music Enriches A Child’s Life: The Rhythm of Early Development
Training Description
Virtual Training | Free to Attend | 3.25-hour Training | 3 CEUs
In this seminar, participants will explore how music can help young children express themselves and share feelings, learn to empathize and trust others, reduce stress levels, and support brain integration. In addition, the seminar will provide a research review of music interventions to enhance dyadic therapy and improve attachment-related outcomes such as emotional co-regulation, mutual attunement, reflective functioning and parental sensitivity.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will understand how the brain learns musical information very early in development.
- Participants will understand how language and music share some key elements such as pattern and rhythm.
- Participants will recognize how moving to a beat with another person can help build social-emotional skills.
- Participants will learn how music can be used to strengthen relationships and support children’s early learning.
- Participants will be able to discuss how music can be effective in dyadic therapeutic work to foster the parent’s attunement to the child’s experience.
Requirements to Attend Training
None. Open for anyone to attend.
Trainer: Jane Clarke, Ph.D.
Dr. Jane Clarke has a Ph.D. in Special Education with a focus on Early Childhood Language/Learning Disabilities, alongside master's degrees in Speech/Language Pathology and Learning Disabilities. She has completed post-doctoral work at Fielding University and fellowships in Infant-Parent Mental Health. Recently, she finished a fellowship in Reflective Supervision Consultation at UC-Davis. With extensive experience supporting high-risk infants and families, she is trained in various assessment procedures and interventions, and has developed innovative assessment tools such as DIAPER and DOVE. Currently, Jane serves as a statewide trainer and consultant for the NM-CYFD BHS – Infant Mental Health program and has been endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Mentor since 2007.
Funding
This training is funded by the Children Youth and Families Department, Children's Behavioral Health Services.
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