The Power of Music Listening to music can bring one peace and harmony an escape from the world around them. Beginning in early childhood people are taught the importance of music as a tool. Some have taken it to a new level taking the world of music and using it to heal. Music Therapy is a practice that uses music techniques to assist and motivate a child or adult towards specific non-musical goals such as cognitive, social, communicative and emotional skills. Certified therapists provide treatment through the acts of singing, dancing , and listening to music. This can help an individual learn to communicate and improve their social interaction. Therapist provide emotional support for patients and families, giving them an outlet for expressing their feelings. The information included shows how music therapy can have a positive and a healing effect for patients suffering from many mental ailments, such as depression, autism. Also helping children and infants with their development , as well as developmental delays. Looking in depth at the research one can get a better understanding of the positive healing effects music therapy provides for many different patients health problems. The idea of music as a healing method that could effect health and behavior, began as early has Plato and Aristotle. What we know as music therapy today started after the two world wars, when musicians would go to veterans hospitals and play for the wounded veterans who where suffering from physical and emotional trauma associated with the wars.(American) The patients had noticeable physical and emotional responses to the music which led doctors and other health care professionals to hire musicians to play for their patients. In the 1940’s, three people... ... middle of paper ... ...ontrolled Trial Investigating the Effect of Music Therapy during an Acute Psychotic Episode." Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 124.5 (2011): 363-71. Print. Mrázová, Marcela, and Peter Celec. "A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials Using Music Therapy for Children." The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 16.10 (2010): 1089-095. Print. Raglio, Alfredo, Daniela Traficante, and Osmano Oasi. "Autism and Music Therapy. Intersubjective Approach and Music Therapy Assessment." Nordic Journal of Music Therapy 20.2 (2011): 123-41. Print. Rylatt, Paula. "The Benefits of Creative Therapy for People with Dementia." Nursing Standard 26.33 (2012): 42-47. Print. Wheeler, Barbara L., and Sylvia Stultz. "Using Typical Infant Development to Inform Music Therapy with Children with Disabilities." Early Childhood Education Journal 35.6 (2008): 585-91. Print.
A way that in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders is using music therapy instead of play therapy as it increases turn taking and eye contact more than when play therapy is used (E-4). Eye Contact was even proved to be held longer during this study when the child was participating in music therapy activities than when they were in regular play activities(E-1). When a mother was quoted on the British Columbian Music Therapy website, she stated that the “skills and abilities acquired in the music therapy setting generalize widely across situations.
Music therapy not only works on adults in the workplace but also on premature babies, infants, and children as well.
...e to communicate with the people that have supported her throughout the whole process and others that she will meet in years to come. She is happy, intelligent, and is open to new foods and learning new things at an accelerating rate. Nicholas used to be antisocial and quiet around the other kids at his daycare. However, now has the confidence to make friends at daycare, interact with them, play with them and have the courage ride his new tricycle. His parents describe him as a “speed demon.” Music has helped him improve on skills he was lagging and has essentially built up his self-esteem. He has improved overall and completely changed. Music is extremely beneficial since it has helped expand therapeutic purposes for autistic patients like Ashley and Nicholas, but others that have been through severe trauma, a heart attack and patients suffering from cancer too.
While Music Therapy has gained wide-spread acclaim for its effectiveness and garnered increasing attention in the fields of Medicine and Psychology, it has not quite effervesced into the level of popularity proportional to how effective it has actually proven to be. For the purposes of this paper, the focus will be restricted to Special Education. Specifically, what will be examined is the effect that underfunding of Special Education has on the children themselves and their ability to socialize and assimilate into society as functional members. Due to the nature of Special Education, the challenges it poses to teachers, parents, other students, and society at large are significant. This population represents neurological, physiological, and
“I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music” (Billy Joel). Although most listeners may not have the same technical experience in music as Billy Joel, it is easy enough to see the effect it has in a person's every day life. Music has the ability to pick us up when we are down, carry you back in time to a cherished memory, and transform silence into a symphony that can move one to tears. Music therapy is simply an application of the life that music creates.
Music Therapy is the use of music to treat a range of conditions either physical or mental (Questia, 2017). It can be used to help a range of conditions such as: autism, mental health (for example anxiety and depression), learning disabilities and neuro disabilities (British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT), 2017). This could be proven useful due to its variety of conditions it can help with, it is a very different idea to help people and music in general is very enjoyable and uplifting. It can also be useful for it is a way people can express themselves, there are many cases in which people do not know how to communicate with others or do not like talking about their conditions or how they feel and communication is very important. However,
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Music is everywhere we go; we listen to it in the car, while doing work, and there are even people who pay to listen or watch an artist perform live. Yes, life goes on without music, but music has such an impact on our lives. Life is a rollercoaster of emotions and we have music to fit our emotions to be just as we feel. Music has a great deal of importance of many people. It can have a meaning that they cannot explain to others and are able to connect with the song. By doing so experts are able to help patients overcome many sicknesses with the help of music. Music therapy is capable of being an advantage for many individual patients, it can encourage responses from patients that other methods of therapy cannot get from them. Also, it improves the patients in distinctive ways other than for an illness.
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Music therapy is a strategy that can be tweaked and modified to fit each particular student and those student’s needs. Because every child who has ASD may not suffer with the same things. However, this strategy allows a teacher to differentiate the way it is administered to each student. A lot of students, who have ASD, struggle with communication. “MT is a non-verbal therapy;” (Kalyva, 2011, p. 91) “which is why the method is particularly effective for individuals with verbal expression difficulties, such as children with autism” (Landau,
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