Bethany Best & Associates

19/07/2024

The NDIS can be difficult to navigate - whether you're a participant, planner or provider.

That's why we've recently published a statement to help provide clarity around music therapy and the NDIS.

In short: music therapy is a therapeutic support under the NDIS. Only registered music therapists who are members of AMTA are qualified to use music as a therapeutic intervention.

AMTA has policies and procedures in place to deal with complaints about people who are not registered music therapists providing 'music therapy'.

Read the statement on our website: https://www.austmta.org.au/news-item/16475/ndis-funded-music-therapists-must-be-amta-registered


📷 A girl in a wheelchair reaches for a guitar, with help from a music therapist. Text: "Explainer: music therapy and the NDIS".

29/08/2022

Great to see the research demonstrate that playing an instrument impacts your cognitive skills for the young and the not so young!

Scottish research has provided some of the first evidence playing an instrument is associated with small, but detectable, cognitive benefits over a lifetim

02/08/2022

Just one of the reasons why music is so special 😊 🎶

14/10/2021

Today is Allied Health Professions Day!

Music Therapy is proud to be a part of the more than 200,000 allied health professionals that make up more than 1/3 of the health workforce!

Together with other allied health professionals Registered Muisc Therapists provide essential care for people of all ages, and people with chronic illnesses, or mental ill-health and those experiencing disability.

To find out more about Music Therapy: https://www.austmta.org.au/

19/05/2021

This is just a wonderful video to watch 🙂

16/03/2021

Happy NMT Technique Tuesday! What is MIT?

01/03/2021

Wishing all colleagues happy World Music Therapy Day, 2021. We celebrate our profession and honor those who continue to benefit from our services.

01/03/2021

Today is World Music Therapy Day!! I have enjoyed almost 12 years of being a Music Therapist and using music to serve people of all ages. I'm excited for many more years in this wonderful profession and celebrating many more World Music Therapy Days!

22/02/2021

Power comes with collaboration. Speech and Music Therapy fit together beautifully! Here's how. Speech

17/02/2021

This is technique I frequently use with all of my clients and have seen some amazing results. Please contact me if you would like to know more!

Happy NMT Technique Tuesday! For this week, what is OMREX? Who in particular do you think could benefit from this technique?

11/02/2021

Yes, we use this Neurologic Music Therapy technique within our therapy sessions to help our patients return to 'easy walking' - decreasing the effort required with the help of rhythm and music! 🎶

What is RAS?

28/03/2020

This little songs will be stuck in your head for days! Well done Allison

Allison Davies says when she uploaded a cheerful ditty about wellness on her Instagram page she had no idea it would strike a chord with families worldwide.