Music Therapy

It offers a flexible temporal structure for processing temporal information. If timing is an ability that is failing, then musical form offers an alternative form within which timing can be temporarily recovered and practiced. The expression of timing in communication will utilize gestural abilities, including utterance, that spontaneously bind events together and are indicative of performed ability.

Gestures are seen within this context as attempts to regain cognition not solely as failed abilities. An emotional regulation is a common core problem with our children; attempts to regulate emotion positively will have benefits for both sufferers and curers.

Emotional arousal is located within a context of attention and action whereas needs may be unmet, and unable to be expressed or fail to be recognized. The expression of emotion, and similarly the ability to inhibit arousal, will contribute to communicating needs effectively.

Communicative abilities are essential. This mutual need is usually achieved through speech. When speech fails, then it is important to utilize those properties of human communication that are not speech dependent. Attention, arousal, affect and action all occur in musical performance. Music therapy has the potential to promote communication, stimulate cognitive abilities and alert us to residual communicative abilities.

At our centre, we have been practicing Music Therapy for quite some time, but we have not documented the process. We are now studying and researching the various applications of music therapy for various rehabilitative processes, we need to standardize and correlate with documentation