Dikla Kerem

1. Lecturer at Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel.
2. Music therapist at "Meir Shefeya" Youth Village, Israel (Individual music therapy for adolescents with learning disabilities and emotional problems).
3. Chairperson of Eligibility Committee of The Israeli Association of Creative & Expressive Therapies (I.C.E.T).

Education

• Union Internationale des Professeurs Dalcroze, Haifa, Certificate, Rythmics and music (1976).
• BA in Psychology & Special Education, Haifa University (1980).
• MA in Music Therapy- Hahnemann University, Philadelphia (1982).
• Psychotherapy Certificate- Department of Psychology, Haifa University, Israel (2000).
• PhD student, Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, since March 2003. Registration period: 2003-2009.

Past professional experience

• Music therapy with children with emotional and behavioral problems, learning disabilities, mild and moderate mental retardation, CP, muscular dystrophy, visually impaired and hearing impaired. Some music therapy experience with adults in psychiatric and alcoholic treatment programs.
• Lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, Israel (MA program in music therapy)
• Music therapy supervisor for the students of Lewinsky College, Tel Aviv and in the Ministry of Education, northern district.
• Member of the Council for Higher Education, Jerusalem for the evaluation of the music therapy program at Bar Ilan University for accreditation as a MA program.

Contact details

Email: dikla.kerem@gmail.com
Postal address: Dikla Kerem, P.O.Box 1057, Zichron Ya'akov 30900, Israel.

 Title of PhD research study

Effect of music therapy on spontaneous communicative interactions of deaf toddlers following cochlear implantation.


Supervisor: Prof. Tony Wigram


Download Ph.D. Thesis