Sound Escape Music Therapy

01/03/2025

21/01/2025

🥁 Launch of the ‘Beat the Drum’ Campaign! 🥁
Music therapy changes lives—improving communication, boosting mental health, and creating meaningful connections for people of all ages and abilities.

Now, we need your voice to help shape the future of music therapy in Australia.

The independent review into music therapy is open for submissions. Whether you're a participant, carer, professional, or advocate, your input matters! Together, we can ensure music therapy continues to thrive.

🛑 Submissions close 7 February 2025. Don’t wait—join us in amplifying the power of music therapy!

👉 Learn more and submit your story here: https://www.austmta.org.au/news-item/18109/beat-the-drum-for-music-therapy



📷 A girl plays the drums. Text: "Beat the drum for music therapy. Raise your voice. Submit your support. Keep music therapy in the NDIS. www.austmta.org.au"

14/12/2024

The Australian Music Therapy Association (AMTA) today acknowledges the appointment of Dr Stephen Duckett AM to review the evidence case and pricing of music therapy under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). This follows extensive advocacy from our association on behalf of participants, families and our members in recent weeks.

Music therapy is a sector dominated by qualified professional women. Given this, we are disappointed that Minister for the NDIS of Australia Hon. Bill Shorten MP did not appoint women to the review panel alongside Dr Duckett or substantially defer changes to pricing guidelines to help ease anxiety across our sector in the lead-up to the holiday season. However, we will be prudent and thorough in our collaboration with the review process.

To do so adequately, we have requested that Dr Duckett provide copies of the evidence the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) relied on in making its original mistaken decision. Furthermore, we request that he meet with participants, their families and our members to hear first-hand about the positive, transformative work of music therapy professionals across Australia.

The AMTA Board of Directors is currently reviewing the government's terms of reference. We will provide a further update and advice to our members and stakeholders shortly, following further consideration. In the meantime, further information relating to the review can be found in the statement on the NDIS website: https://www.ndis.gov.au/news/10530-independent-review-ndis-funded-music-and-art-supports



📷 Text: "Music therapy belongs in the NDIS". A child and an adult use an electronic keyboard together.

14/12/2024

Thank you for all of your support Australia’s many musicians!!!

Music therapy belongs in the NDIS as a therapy support... and these acclaimed Australian musicians agree.Artists including Tim Rogers, Bernard Fanning, Stell...

03/12/2024

30/11/2024

30/11/2024

AMTA continues to ask that music therapy remain in the NDIS as a therapy support.

Because registered music therapists - just like our allied health colleagues - deliver therapy supports that ensure NDIS participants receive targeted, evidence-based interventions, with individualised and goal-directed interventions specifically designed to address the participant’s functional needs and goals.

Read the article: https://www.austmta.org.au/news-item/17803/music-therapy-is-a-therapeutic-support



📷 A registered music therapist is playing the piano and engaging in communicative intent using music, vocalisations and gesture with a little boy, Danny, who is wearing glasses. Both are making an 'oo' shape and sound with their mouths while leaning over the piano keyboard.