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		<title>Launched! Dr Kat McFerran’s  Adolescents, Music and Music Therapy: Methods and Techniques for Clinicians, Educators, and Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Launched at Readings Carlton on the 6th of July – Dr Kat McFerran’s ‘ Adolescents, Music and Music Therapy: Methods and Techniques for Clinicians, Educators, and Students’. This practical text, published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, provides ideas, theoretical frameworks and inspiration for working with teenagers.]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Coughlan State Finalist in Aged and Community Care Victoria Excellence Awards.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baptcare residential aged care homes music therapist Peter Coughlan was a state finalist at the recent Aged and Community Care Victoria Excellence Awards.]]></description>
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		<title>Woodbury Autism Education and Research&#8217;s Music Therapy Program Receives Grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 25 area services and projects received grants in July under the Community Development Support Expenditure scheme of local clubs.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new recycling initiative will see discarded mobile phones used to raise money for Hills charity Inala.]]></description>
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		<title>Rhythm of life: music shows potential in stroke rehabilitation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Music therapy provided by trained music therapists may help to improve movement in stroke patients, according to a systematic review by Cochrane researchers. A few small trials also suggest a wider role for music in recovery from brain injury.]]></description>
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		<title>Music Festival for People with a Disability</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New England Conservatorium of Music (NECOM) director Julie Croft is one of a group putting together a grant application to take to the NSW Arts Council, to develop a regional music festival for people with disabilities across the region.]]></description>
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		<title>SSO Plays for Children with Special Needs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a morning of musical harmony when members of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performed for children with special needs at Mounties recently.]]></description>
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		<title>Bridging the Gap Project Awarded Grant</title>
		<link>http://www.austmta.org.au/2010/bridging-the-gap-project-awarded-grant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An innovative music therapy project and after school education programme on the Bellarine were awarded Youth Foundations Victoria grants in Portarlington last month.]]></description>
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		<title>Music Festival at Royal Melbourne Hospital</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students from Wesley College's St Kilda Rd campus visited the Parkville hospital on May 21 for the hospital's first live music festival. Hospital music therapy manager and festival director Emma O'Brien said patients in hospital weren't necessarily expecting to hear classical music.

Ms O'Brien said the hospital's festival included music from big bands, string quartets, chamber orchestras, choirs, and percussion and string ensembles.]]></description>
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		<title>New Music Therapy Rooms for Warrnambool&#8217;s St John of God Hospital</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A $6.4 million redevelopment at Warrnambool’s St John of God Hospital was opened recently by Ballarat Catholic Bishop Peter Connors. The centre features the region’s biggest hydrotherapy pool, a gymnasium, therapy rooms, consulting suites, art and music therapy rooms and group rooms.]]></description>
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