Music art professions academy
Miss Panda F Y Ngai is the founder of Panda Music Zone (A Music Therapy Centre and Instrumental Learning Studio in Hong Kong). She has been a Board Certified Music Therapist in the United States since 1999. She graduated with a double Master degrees in Music Education and Music Therapy from Shenandoah Conservatory, Shenandoah University in Winchester VA.
She was a instructor for Shenandoah University music therapy program to teach and train music therapy students and interns. Her responsibilities included observing music therapy students weekly in their practicum sessions and evaluated of their strengths and weaknesses regarding their music therapy sessions.
During Miss Panda's years of serving as a music therapist in the States, she worked with regular children and children with special needs such as autism, developmental delay, emotion disturbed children, attention deficit with hyperactivity (ADHD), learning difficulties and children at risk in Winchester city and Frederick county schools in VA, USA. She developed music therapy sessions that were engaging, developmentally appropriate, and directly supported the Virginia Standards of Learning for students. Her sessions are 90% live music that is age-appropriate and interactive. She easily moves from a variety of styles of music to address the children's needs and their interests.
Besides teaching piano and working with individuals with special needs. Ms Panda is a music therapist at Kau Yan primary and Kindergarten, music is used to increase attention span and reinforce academic learning. In addition, she is also a part time lecturer at Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Lee Wai Lee), for the Department of Child Education and Community Services.
Services
Direct service to clients consists of the delivery of music therapy services to individuals and groups.
Additional clinical responsibilities include weekly documentation and periodic consultation with interdisciplinary staff regarding evaluation of client progress. Direct collaboration associated with treatment goals, supplementary resources and adaptive equipment also occurs on a periodic basis.
Besides working as a music therapist, private lesson is always available, e.g piano and conduct a tone chime performance group. Being a certified Kindermusik educator, I am able to teach new born to age 7 children in an early childhood music education.
Types of Session
Group sessions for preschoolers and elementary level students
- Readiness skills are taught in group setting for appropriate classroom behavior
Individual session for all clients
- Clinical improvisation, including sensory stimulation, is used by the therapist to improve client's sensory awareness.
Individual instrumental private lesson
- To teach students leisure skills including how to play piano, guitar, or recorder. Adaptive materials will be used including "Easy chord", adaptive pick, and visual aids for developmental level in learning to read music.
Tone chimes performance group
- Students will learn appropriate behavior and music skills sufficient for ensemble performances in the community.
Target Client
Clients include normal children, at-risk preschoolers, children with severe/profound disabilities, autistic children, developmental delay, learning difficulty children, emotional disturbed children/adult and adult who have developmental disabilities.
For Kindermusik program (early childhood music education), new born to 7 years-old children
Private piano lesson for all ages, group sing (Learning through music) for children from age 3 to 8, conduct a chime choir for children or adult.
What Other Services Available
Individual assessment
Establish and design a treatment plan include therapeutic goals and objectives
Consultation with other inter-disciplinary professions
Address: Shop 6, G/F, 19-29 Western Street, Hong Kong
Tel: 2549 7822
Fax: 2549 7122
Web: http://www.pandamusiczone.com/
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