Dr Allison Fuller PhD, RMT (AMTA), NMT Fellow (ANMT)

Allison (Al) has been a Registered Music Therapist (RMT) for almost 30 years, with practice focus areas including autism, hearing loss, complex needs, family-centred practice, culture-centred practice and technology within music therapy. Al heads up the Master of Creative Music Therapy program at Western Sydney University, and has completed her PhD in the use of visual supports within music therapy practice across face-to-face and telepractice platforms. The Fuller & McLeod (2019) publication on The Connected Music Therapy Teleintervention Approach (CoMTTA) and its application to family-centred programs for young children with hearing loss, was a timely offering to the profession published prior to the global pandemic. Al was the invited guest editor for the 2021 Special Edition of the Australian Journal of Music Therapy titled This is Australia… Online Music Therapy… Down Under… Telehealth approaches to music therapy within Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic, and was an invited member of the Telehealth Special Interest Group for the IAMM Conference. Al’s recent research projects involve investigating online music therapy delivery by RMTs providing services within Western Sydney, utilising the ‘Elk LIVE Bridge’ technology; and the development of a parent coaching program for utilising music with children with hearing loss, including telepractice delivery. Al is a regular conference presenter at national and international conferences, and was awarded the Helen Shoemark Research Excellence Award for her conference presentation The Music Therapy Visual Schedule Approach (MT-ViSA): Amplifying music therapy programs through the co-design integration of visual supports into practice at the 47th National Conference of the Australian Music Therapy Association.

Fuller, A. M. (2021). “This is Australia… Online Music Therapy… Down Under…” Telehealth approaches to music therapy within Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic [Editorial]. Australian Journal of Music Therapy, 32(1), i-iv. https://www.austmta.org.au/public/151/files/AJMT/2021/Issue%201/2_%20AJMT%2032(1)%20-%20Fuller%20Editorial.pdf 

Fuller, A.M. (2021). Introducing the Music Therapy Visual Schedule Approach (MT-ViSA): Practice related considerations for visual design and production. Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy, Advance online publication. http://approaches.gr/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Approaches_FirstView-a20210829-fuller.pdf 

Fuller, A.M., Kaplun, C., & Short, A.E. (2021). The application of the Music Therapy Visual Schedule Approach (MT-ViSA) within a group music therapy program. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 31(2), 153-175. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/08098131.2021.1938642 

Fuller, A.M., & Short, A.E. (2020). The utilisation of visual supports within music therapy practice in Australia: Listening and looking. Australian Journal of Music Therapy, 31, 1-27. https://www.austmta.org.au/journal/article/utilisation-visual-supports-within-music-therapy-practice-australia-listening-and 

Fuller, A.M., & McLeod, R.G. (2019). The Connected Music Therapy Teleintervention Approach (CoMTTA) and its application to family-centred programs for young children with hearing loss. Australian Journal of Music Therapy, 30, 12-30. https://www.austmta.org.au/journal/article/connected-music-therapy-teleintervention-approach-comtta-and-its-application-family 

Short, A., MacRitchie, J., Fuller, A., Garrido, S., Smith, C., Peel, N., Hall, N. (2019). Sounding out: Music for health and wellbeing (white paper). Western Sydney University. https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/1639564/RSCH5014_Music_and_Health_Web.pdf