Music Therapy

What is Music
Therapy?
 Music Therapy
 It is the use of the
power of music incorporating creative,
expressive and integrative medicine to
address the special needs of special
children, adults, and seniors –
physically, emotionally, psychosocially,
intellectually and spiritually.
 Music
 is a dynamic combination of many
disciplines around two subject
areas.
 is a phenomenon/observable fact
people of all cultures create, sing,
perform, share, listen to,
appreciate and enjoy.
 Therapy
 is a means of helping a person
with physical, emotional,
psychological, psychosocial,
spiritual problems.
 The major goal is to change the
behavior of the child, remove
unwanted, uncomfortable and
unhealthy conditions and replace
them with more adaptive ones.
Music Therapy
and Special
Education
 Music Therapy
 It can be an integral component in
helping the child with special
needs attain educational goals
identified by the IEP team.
 It increases motivation to
participate more fully in other
aspects of the educational setting
 It can adapt strategies to
encourage a child’s participation in
the least restrictive environment.
  It helps in creating diverse
channels of communication
through techniques adapted to
his specific needs.
 It is very effective because it is
also a non-verbal form of
communication.
 The child learns to express
himself because Music
bypasses all communications
 It can help in the development
in the sensory skills.
 It can stimulate attention and
encourage concentration.
 It is affective in the
development of speech and
remediation.
 Music is a specific means
towards the development of
the cognitive pathology.
 It activates a number of mental
process.
 It develops and integrates his
auditory, visual, tactile, and motor
skills through musical experiences.
 It encourages mental exercises
through repetitions to encourage
the brain to grasp and work
continuously.
 Music is flexible and adaptable.
 It has a wide variety of functions.
 What
Music
Can Do?
  Music is a field of various
experiences which affects our
body, emotions, mind and spirit.
 The power of music reaches the
emotional world of the child and is
a path to the world of feelings.
 Music meets the child at his own
terms spontaneously.
 It alleviates negative behavior
and makes his response
become positive and purposeful
in a non-threatening
environment.

 It helps the child discover his

innate creativity, expressive self
through any kind of sounds
beautiful, violent, rough or timid.
 It penetrates the subconscious and
can reveal much of what is hidden
inside a person.
 Music is of value in situations where
a child suffers deficiency in grasping
logical process, because part of an
environment or relate one part of his
own body to another, service it has
to be enjoyed at a concrete level
without an understanding of abstract
processes.
 Music can help children draw
out responses that will help
them to realize their potential
and improve their quality of
life.
 It can help people transcend
and overcome emotional
difficulties.
 It is so effective because it is
an intrinsic part of all of us.
 It develops their confidences,
self-esteem, and self worth.
Once self-confidence is built,
there is trust within them and
other tasks could be easily
accomplished.
 It gives children a feeling of
being valued for what they can
do and who they are.
 It is an integrating force involving
in one operation-physical,
emotional, mental and social
factors affecting the child directly
at his own level of intellectual and
emotional tolerance.
 But music should not be taught as
an end-product itself.
  But whatever it is, the most
important purpose we should have
is the happiness and joy it gives to
each child and their feelings in
their hearts and spirits gained
from the music therapy sessions.