Ricki Worth, Mm, Mt-Bc Email & Phone Number

• Facilitates individual music therapy sessions for infants, children, and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders, including but not limited to autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and anxiety. • Employs Neurologic Music Therapy approach to address individualized goals across domains (cognitive, sensorimotor, communication, sensory, executive functioning). • Develops customized music-based interventions (instrument playing, songwriting with Garage Band, singing, music and movement) and uses child-preferred music to target goals. • Collaborates in co-treatment sessions with speech, occupational, and ABA therapists. • Records daily notes reflecting client’s progress following each session and modifies goals in progress and re-evaluation notes every six months to reflect client’s growth and needs. • Educates parents and caregivers on strategies to transfer skills from clinic to home, including emotional regulation and learning.

Ontario, California, United States

Population: Adults in hospice (including but not limited to dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, depression, anxiety, and cardiomyopathy) Site Supervisor: Christine Patton, MT-BCPosition: Music therapy intern• Designed and implemented treatment plans for evaluation and routine visits. Documented on Home Care Home Base tablet system. • Identified and addressed psychosocial and cognitive goals including maximizing quality of life, development of coping skills for isolation, anxiety, and/or depression, anticipatory grief support, bereavement support, prompting reminiscence, spiritual support, facilitating bonding with loved ones, promotion of emotional expression, and increased sensory stimulation. • Implemented a variety of music therapy interventions consisting of songwriting, lyric analysis, lyric rewrite, improvisation, individual and group instrument playing, individual and group singing, musical life review, music listening, iso principle, and verbal counseling. Completed legacy projects including a songwriting activity with the patient and the patient’s spouse. • Attended weekly interdisciplinary meetings and daily stand-up and stand-down meetings. Updated team members on patient caseload and their progress toward goals. Designed team-building exercises for interdisciplinary team meetings.• Worked closely with interdisciplinary team members (the chaplain, social workers, registered nurses, clinical director, and music therapy supervisor) on patient care and care plans. Arranged and facilitated a family care meeting with the patient, family, and patient's care team.• Scheduled and coordinated music therapy visits with patients or their caregivers in person or through phone calls. • Co-facilitated in-services at assisted living facilities with the music therapy supervisor.

John A. Ferguson Sr. High• Taught weekly music therapy-inspired services and general music to adolescents with autism spectrum disorder over Zoom. • Designed and taught individualized lesson plans for each class to address each student’s social and developmental needs. Lesson plans included activities that addressed sensorimotor, communicative, cognitive, and social-emotional needs (e.g., music and movement, musical games, composition, group instrument playing, and group singing). • Coordinated with the special education teachers on lesson planning. Led class activities with assistance from the special education teachers and paraprofessionals in the classrooms.Leadership Learning Center• Designed lesson plans with co-teachers and taught weekly general music classes (keyboard, ukulele, percussion, and GarageBand on iPad) to K-12 students.• Coordinated the sixth-grade summer concert rehearsals, arranged the music composition, and conducted the music performance.Arthur & Polly Mays Conservatory of the Arts and Miami Arts Studio• Developed and taught social-emotional learning summer curriculum to middle school and high school students over Zoom and in person. • Created and facilitated weekly individualized lesson plans for private cello classes with middle school and high school students over Zoom.• Coached and prepared students for music competitions. Mentored high school students with college applications for music school.Miami Jam Sessions• Coordinated and monitored Zoom bi-weekly meetings for Miami Jam Sessions, a program that provides group music therapy to adolescents and young adults with disabilities, including intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorder. • Scheduled and supervised fundraiser meetings over Zoom. Generated and launched fundraising ideas. • Created and edited lyric music videos for the program.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

• Coached in-person weekly middle school beginning strings class at schools in Miami-Dade County.• Prepared weekly lesson plans and instructed for the afterschool community string class.

Miami, Florida, United States

Population: Adults in Rehabilitation (including but not limited to cerebrovascular accident and traumatic brain injury)Site Supervisor: Claudia Santesteban-Bidot, M.S., CCC-SLP• Independently designed and implemented four, 45-minute in-person sessions per week. • Attended hospital rounds with the interdisciplinary team weekly. • Observed and co-treated sessions with the Speech-Language Pathologist team. • Identified and addressed communicative and cognitive goals including improving speech intelligibility and short-term memory recall, as well as increasing sustained and selective attention. • Implemented music therapy techniques consisting of songwriting, instrument playing, improvisation, and singing.

Miami, Florida, United States

Population: Young adults with Intellectual Disabilities/Developmental Disabilities Site Supervisor: BriAnne Weaver, M.M., MT-BC• Provided weekly one-hour telehealth therapy sessions with a student partner. • Identified and addressed communicative and cognitive goals including improving short-term memory recall and speech articulation and projection. • Implemented music therapy techniques consisting of instrument playing, music listening, singing, beatboxing, songwriting, music and movement, and playing musical games.

Miami, Florida, United States

Population: Elderly Adults; with and without Dementia Site Supervisor: Leah Saunders, MT-BC• Provided weekly one-hour telehealth therapy sessions with a student partner. • Identified and addressed psychosocial and cognitive goals including processing and expressing emotions and maintaining access to long-term memories. • Implemented music therapy techniques consisting of music listening, songwriting, singing, iso principle, lyric analysis, reminiscence, family bonding, and song discussion.

Miami, Florida, United States

Population: Preschool-aged Children in Head StartSite Supervisor: Kimberly Sena Moore Ph.D., MT-BC• Provided weekly one-hour therapy sessions with student partners for six weeks. • Identified and addressed social-emotional and cognitive goals including increasing expressive language and improving prosocial skills. • Implemented music therapy techniques consisting of songwriting, movement to music, group singing, and instrument playing.

• Instructed daily science lessons and activities at the science-based camp classes for children ages 4-6. • Oversaw and aided in before and aftercare for camp participants. • Aided in outreach programming and events.

• Assisted Youth Programs Facilitators in the delivery of interactive, science-based classes.• Assisted with the general supervision of the class, including classroom management.• Participated in all classroom activities and projects daily.• Prepared and organized supplies.• Assisted in maintaining the classroom and other museum spaces used during camp, ensuring a safe and clean environment.• Set up activities/experiments.• Assisted as needed during morning drop-offs, camper's lunchtime, and afternoon pick-ups.• Assisted with the supervision of camp participants during before- and after-care.

Redlands, California

• Taught students ages 10-50 varying from beginner to intermediate levels.• Coached student chamber string ensembles.

Redlands, California

• Taught students ages 4-30 varying from beginner to advanced intermediate levels.• Coached students for honor orchestra auditions.

Redlands, California

• Developed and taught weekly lesson plans for group beginning string classes with students ages 8-14. • Aided with registration documentation and payment processing. • Organized, oversaw, and conducted performances at the semester recitals.

Master Of Music In Music Therapy With Undergraduate Equivalency, Music Therapy/Therapist

Bachelor Of Music In Performance, Cello

Activities and Societies: Sigma Alpha Iota- Vice President, Ritual ('17-'18), Recording Secretary ('16-'17), and Receptions Chair ('15-'16)