Photo of Jeremy Jensen, Program Director of Coast Music Therapy, dated 2007.

This page describes our approach to treating children and adolescents with special needs.Michelle Lazar  MT-BC founded and directs Coast Music Therapy.This page describes the qualifications of our program supervisor Jeremy Jensen, MM, MT-BC.This page describes our therapists' credentials and qualifications in treating children with special needs.This page lists our email, phone, fax, and postal mail details.

 
 


Jeremy Jensen , MM, MT-BC, is co-director of Coast Music Therapy. After receiving his baccalaureate degree in music and psychology, he earned his master’s degree in music therapy from Colorado State University, with additional clinical training in Neurologic Music Therapy. During his graduate studies he served as research assistant for the Center for Biomedical Research in Music and conducted thesis work examining the role of music and emotions in cognition.

Jeremy specializes in autism Rett syndrome, brain injury, and other neurodevelopmental disorders and has additional training in the integration of music with Applied Behavior Analysis. Jeremy also directs the music recording and sound engineering for both Coast Music Therapy and Tuned in to Learning.

Pages under this topic heading describe our professional qualifications and approaches to treating children with special needs. Pages under this topic heading describe music therapy and how we use music to achieve goals in treating children with various diagnoses. Pages under this topic heading describe our individual and group music therapy, consultation, music lessons, funding, and workshop services. This page offers parents and educators free PDFs, downloadable documents, filled with explanations of dozens of music therapists' tips for using music to treat children with special needs. This page lists links to dozens of quality online resources available to parents and educators of children with special needs. This page lists noteworthy new music therapy services and  current regional music therapy events.  
     
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