Saturday Something

I have a webinar that I am not running but will be attending later this morning. I am ready to learn a bit and figure out a bit about insurance reimbursement and music therapy. This has nothing to do with my life right now, but it may have something to do with my next iteration as a music therapist. There you go.

I spent some time making things yesterday, and I have a new tool ready to go into my TPT store. It is a set of music instrument choice cards. I have printed out a hard copy that I am going to finish up - laminate and velcro and put into a binder for use later. I am thinking that we could make this at one of our Make It! groups. I also think that this is the type of tool that is useful for all sorts of music therapists. Right now, the file is only in black and white, but I will be making a color version pretty soon.

I enjoy making tools - the things that we can use over and over again that enhance the music therapy experience for our clients without being tied to just one song, therapeutic music experience, or intervention. Something that will make communication easier for those who do not have the words to tell their therapists what they want, need, like, or dislike. So far, I have cards for food, animals, and now for instruments. I also found a website forever ago (no longer going) that had emotion cards, and I use them over and over again.

I am interested in making some of these for my exhibit tables coming up this spring, but I need to find some printing services rather than using my own. I am trying to decide what I can afford to invest in printing to help guide me in making decisions about my budget for these tables. I think I can swing two tables and travel to both conferences (one is in my town so that makes it easy to afford!). I want to have physical copies and digital links to my products available for music therapists, so I am trying to figure out how to accomplish that particular task. I am thinking through all sorts of things.

Today, though, is for laminating and listening to someone else talk about music therapy stuff.

Happy Saturday!

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