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Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) is a treatment technique developed for expressive aphasia rehabilitation which utilizes a patient’s unimpaired ability to sing, to facilitate spontaneous and voluntary speech through sung and chanted melodies which resemble natural speech intonation patterns (Sparks et al. 1974).
How does music therapy work? In a therapeutic setting, listening to or making music triggers physi-cal and emotional changes. Ongoing clinical research has docu-mented benefits of specific interventions using rhythms, melodies, harmonies, or lyrics. In oncology, common goals of music therapy
Oct 22, 2017 · Music improves concentration, athletic performance, body movement and coordination, productivity, fatigue fighter, mood and decreases depression. Relaxing music induces sleep and reduces stress...
Clinical Improvisation Techniques in Music Therapy—A Guide for Students, Clinicians and Educators provides a clear and systematic approach to understanding and applying improvisational techniques.
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- Expanding the Clinical Scope: New Directions
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There is a paucity of systematic clinical research investigating the potential use of music therapy to facilitate emotional under-standing in children with ASD. Katagiri (2009) studied the effectiveness of music-based inter-vention to facilitate understanding of four dif-ferent emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, and fear. In the improvisational ...
From this brief overview of the current clinical research, it is possible to note that Music therapy interventions have focused predominantly on the cardinal clinical features of autism. However, individuals with ASD often display several other debilitating impairments, such as motor control and attention deficits. There are compelling research ev...
The growing body of literature reviewed in this chapter indicates that the potential of music- based therapy for ASD is yet to be fully explored. Music-related skills in domains such as memory, auditory perception, emotion and language are greatly preserved in ASD. Moreover, there is robust evidence from basic neuroimaging and correlational resear...
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A growing body of behavioral evidence prevails the efficacy of music training on various speech and language impairments including dyslexia, specific language impairment (SLI), aphasia, dysarthria, apraxia of speech, fluency disorders, voice disorders, and hearing loss.
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This document provides a brief side-by-side summary of key elements of music therapy and therapeutic music. Common to both of these practices is the use of music by practitioners trained in their specialization to benefit clients served.
