Sunday, 21 April 2013

Abundance: Music Therapists Sharing Favourite Apps


At our annual MTABC (Music Therapy Association of BC) business meeting I was struck by something that one of the presenters said.  We need to focus on abundance and less on lack," she said.  Those words have stayed with me all week.
I was there to present my favourite iPad apps and how they can be very helpful tools to music therapists. There truly is an abundance of great apps helpful for music therapists, and some of these are even free. I was happy to share my favorites, and to explain why I found them to be so useful. 

I'd like to continue sharing the abundance of these great tools, so I thought I'd post my favorites here too. I invited all music therapists in attendance to post their favorites as well. That way everyone benefits!

Here is a list of our favourite apps for music therapists from MTABC. Many of these apps can be used across multiple populations. I have done my best to put them in categories according to appropriate population benefit.

Enjoy!

Multiple Populations:

iGuitar
iAutoharp
Noteshelf
Celtic Harp
Accordeon
Virtuoso
Garageband
Recorder HD
History of Rock
History of Jazz
Small Talk Phonemes

Adults:  Mental Health, Brain Injury, Geriatrics and 
Speech and Language

Trivia Tunes
3D Brain
Small Talk Dysphagia
Small Talk Oral Motor

Toddlers:

Baby Chords
Piano Pals

Children/Teens:

Songify – Turn Speech Into Music
iXylophone
Dust Buster
Wild Chords
Pic Card Maker
Endless ABC
Vid Rhythm
Harmonizer
Magic Piano
Falling Stars
Glee Karaoke
Beatwave

Music Therapists: Helpful Tools

Turboscan – quickly scan multi page documents into high-quality PDFs
DeepDish GigBook – Organizing all your songs
Capo
iReal b – Music Book and Play along
NoteStar





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