Music Therapy

interventions for
communication
rehabilitation
Cristian Jovan Rojas Romero
Fonoaudiólogo
Magister en Musicoterapia
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What do you think is Music

Therapy?
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What do you think is Music Therapy?
 It is musical education guided by a music
therapist
 Music therapy is a pleasant hobby
 Music therapy is done when someone goes
to a concert o play
 It is a profession in which music is used
within a therapeutic relationship
 It is the action to listen to music on radio or
another kind of electronic device
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Music Therapy Definition

It is the professional use of music and its
elements as an intervention in medical,
educational, and everyday environments with
individuals, groups, families, or communities
who seek to optimize their quality of life and
improve their physical, social, communicative,
emotional, intellectual, and spiritual health and
wellbeing. Research, practice, education, and
clinical training in music therapy are based on
professional standards according to cultural,
social, and political contexts. (World Federation
of Music Therapy)
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What is it necessary to do
Music Therapy?
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What it is necessary to do Music Therapy?

• It is mandatory to be a Rock star to be a
Music therapist
• The clients must be musicians
• Music therapists has to play all musical
instruments perfectly
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What it is necessary to do Music Therapy?

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Fields of intervention
Community MT
Educational MT
Psychological
Medical
Neurorehabilitation (physical cognitive y
communication)
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Community
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Educational
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Psychosocial
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Medical
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Neurorehabilitation
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Neurorehabilitation
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How does music affect the brain?

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How does music affect the brain?

Music activates different brain areas, it has the
capacity to connect many lobes and
neurological structures
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How does our brain process music?

Sensorial and
Cognitive Affective
motor
connections connections
connections
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How does the brain process music?

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Left Hemisphere Right Hemisphere

Rhythm perception  Musical pitch processing
Melodic information  Melodic perception (no
musicians)
processing (musicians)  Recognition of musical
Performance during patterns
singing  Discrimination of intensity
Sequential analysis of changes (volume)
music  Musical chords perception
 Singing
Receptive behavior to  Expressive rhythmical and
listen to music melodic behavior
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How does music affect our brain?

Music is a powerful stimuli to facilitate brain
plasticity, it is important in cases of injury (Wan
y Schlaug, 2010)
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How does music affect the brain?

Musical experiences can increase Dopamine
and Serotonin modulation (Altenmüller y
Schlaug, 2013)
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How does music affect the brain?

Music promotes abilities related to memory,
learning and language (Thaut, 2008 Baker,
2006)
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Methods in Music Therapy

Receptive
Re-creative
Improvisation
Composition
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Receptive Method
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Re-creative Method
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Improvisation Method
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communication rehabilitation

Composition Method
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Composition Method
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Music Therapy Techniques for communication

 Melodic Intonation Therapy
 Musical Speech Stimulation
 Rhythmic Speech Cuing
 Vocal Intonation Therapy
 Oral Motor and Respiratory Exercises
 Developmental Speech and Language Training
through Music
 Therapeutic Signing
 Symbolic Communication Training Through Music
 Music Therapy Hearing Impairment
Thank you
Cristian Jovan Rojas Romero
Professor of Seech and
Language pathology at FUMC
email:
cristianjovanrojasromero@fumc.edu.co