Selected Publications

• Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2025). Parental demand, learning, and satisfaction of virtual parent coaching of music interventions.  Journal of Music Therapy, 62(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/jmt/thaf004  [Research supported by the Arthur Flagler Fultz Research Award of the American Music Therapy Association]
• Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2025). Parent coaching of music interventions of young autistic children: Transforming research and professional knowledge into community practice (chapter). In K. McCord, C. Colwell, & D. VanderLinde (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Special Music Education and Music Therapy. Oxford University Press.
• Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2025). Empowering parents through coaching of music interventions. Imagine magazine 2025. De La Vista Publisher, Inc.
• Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2023). Recreative to improvisational music-making with a mother and her autistic child (chapter). In Clinical Decision-Making in Music Therapy: Case Studies (Eds. A. Heiderscheit & N. Jackson). Barcelona Publishers.
• Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2022, December). La improvisación musical entre padres y niños autistas para el desarrollo y la comunicación. Revista de la Red Latinoamericana de Musicoterapia en la Primera Infancia, 7, 46–52. https://fliphtml5.com/bookcase/pbvzy/
• Hernandez-Ruiz, E. & Lehrer, G. (2022). “Music therapy was never on the table”: Perspectives of parents of young autistic children. Journal of Music Therapy, 59(3), 307–339. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmt/thac008 [Research supported by the Harmonic Remedy Research Award of the Western Region of the American Music Therapy Association]
• Hernandez-Ruiz, E., Qi, R., Wampler, M., & Welsh, E. R. (2022). Psychological and neural differences of music processing in autistic individuals: A scoping review. Journal of Music Therapy, 59(1), 87–124. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmt/thab020
• Hernandez-Ruiz, E. & Braden, B. B. (2021). Improving a parent coaching model of music interventions for young autistic children. Journal of Music Therapy, 58(3), 278–309. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmt/thab008 [Research supported by HIDA Research Investment Grant, Arizona State University]
• Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2021). Parent-mediated music interventions with children with ASD: A systematic review. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 8, 403–420. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40489-020-00219-6
• Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2020). Feasibility of parent coaching of music interventions for children with ASD. Music Therapy Perspectives, 38(2), 195-204. https://doi.org/10.1093/mtp/miz016   
• Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2020). Parent coaching of music interventions for children with ASD: A conceptual framework. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 28(4), 315-332. https://doi.org/10.1080/08098131.2019.1647447
• Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2018). Music therapy and Parent-Early Start Denver Model to teach social communication strategies to parents of preschoolers with ASD: A feasibility study. Music Therapy Perspective, 36(1), 26 – 39. https://doi.org/10.1093/mtp/mix018