Mrs. Adler is a Board Certified Music Therapist, and a member of the American Association for Music Therapy. Honors and awards include the Howard J. Donnelly Leadership and Scholarship Award, Wayne State University, June 1973); the Shallway Foundation Award for Professional Excellence in Public Performance; and the 2000 Western Regional American Music Therapy Association Professional Practice Award.
In 1985, she affiliated with a Community College District, and Adult Schools, bringing music therapy into skilled nursing facilities, assisted living residences, a psychiatric hospital, and a senior center. Private clients have included children and adults with developmental needs.
Mrs. Adler has mentored interns since 1999, including those from Russia, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, and the United States. Undergraduate music therapy students from CSULB, and now Chapman University, have rotated through her practice for clinical experience since 1996.
Mrs. Adler owns one patent, for the Adapt-a-Pick, a device designed to facilitate simultaneous use of an autoharp/Omnichord/Q-Chord between a client and a therapist. She is the author of Musical Assessment of Gerontologic Needs and Treatment: The MAGNET Survey, published in 2001. She is contributing to the AMTA effort to include music therapy on the Minimum Data Set, a global assessment tool used to authorize therapy services for recipients of Medicare.
Married to a newspaper reporter, her personal interests include her family and friends, collecting handblown glass, folk and Celtic music, and remaining an active member of her religious congregation. |
