Mrs Julie Wylie, of Christchurch, MNZM for services to musical play therapy
Julie Wylie founded the New Zealand Musical Parenting Association. She is the founder of the music programme and senior music specialist at the Champion Centre for children with special needs at Burwood Hospital. She runs a music school, Julie Wylie Musical Play, for mothers and young children. She is a director for an international online training programme in Musical Play and Play Therapy. She helped develop the Diploma in Early Childhood Music with the Institute of Registered Music Teachers New Zealand. Mrs Wylie has been a member of the Society of Music Education and the New Zealand Society of Music Therapy and an examiner for Registered Music Teachers New Zealand.