Assessment: Musical-Emotional Profile

The Rebecca Center's assessment process includes the administering of The Individual Music-Centered Assessment Profile for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (IMCAP-ND®). Based on the research and clinical work of Dr. John A. Carpente, The IMCAP-ND® is a music-centered assessment profiling system targeting six levels of musical responsiveness as they pertain to the child's ability to engage, relate and communicate within the context of musical-play. Although the IMCAP-ND® is a music-centered assessment tool, each of the six levels of musical responsiveness is consistent with the DIR®/FloortimeTM Model and focus primarily on social-emotional development. The assessment is administered within the context of interactive musical-play while observing and listening to the child through various modes of musical expression (i.e. instruments, voice, movement, gestures, etc.).

Evaluation is based on the duration and quality of the child's musical interaction, while taking into consideration the type of support (i.e. visual cues, verbal, gestural cues, high affect, etc.) used to assist the child in a particular music domain area. The IMCAP-ND® is administered over the course of 6-8 sessions following the child's initial intake/evaluation session. Following the process of scoring the IMCAP-ND®, therapists together with the child's family, develop an individualized goal and intervention plan.

The Rebecca Center for Music Therapy began in 1999 when certified music therapist John Carpente created Music for Living, an organization providing music therapy services to children with special needs and to persons afflicted with HIV/AIDS and substance abuse. In February of 2000, Music for Living developed an on-site, out-patient music therapy clinic in Melville, New York servicing special needs' children ages 3-15 with various disabilities.

In 2001, Music for Living incorporated as a non-profit organization and became "The Rebecca Center, Inc." and in 2002 received its 501(c) 3 non-profit status. In June 2002, The Rebecca Center for Music Therapy dramatically expanded its services by opening a music therapy clinic on the campus of Molloy College in Rockville Centre, New York. The Molloy College facility is the first music therapy center in Nassau County.

Since 2002 The Rebecca Center, through outreach and its on-site clinic, has served hundreds of special needs people throughout Long Island and New York.

For more information, please email us at TRCinfo@molloy.edu.