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Music Therapy in Special Education Music therapy is an established health profession that uses the effects of music to achieve non-musical treatment goals. Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act* (IDEA)20 U.S.C. §1400 music therapy is recognized as a related service in special education and settings serving students with ...
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- Methods of Using Music Therapy in The Special Education Classroom
- What Is Music Therapy?
- Music Therapy For Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Music Therapy For Students with Behavioral Disorders
- Music Therapy For Students Who Struggle with Memorization
- Music Therapy For Students with Physical Disorders
- Conclusion
I have a significant passion for music therapy with special education students. Through personal experience while working as an autism specialist in a large school district in Washington State, I saw first hand the improvement students were able to make. For students who struggle, music therapy can deliver amazing results, helping students gain val...
Instructors of all types, including special education instructors, may use music therapy to help people reach goals regarding wellness, stress management, improved communication, and expression of emotion and feeling, according to the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA). The idea of using music therapy to help people with a wide range of issu...
For a student diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), music therapy may help in a wide range of areas, including: 1. Social interactions 2. Communications skills 3. Motor skills 4. Emotional functioning and expression 5. Academic skills 6. Self-regulation skills 7. Coping skills 8. Focus skills Social skills development seems to work especia...
Students with behavioral disorders can also benefit from music therapy techniques. Music stirs emotions, therapists can use different types of music to evoke and cope with various emotions and self-regulation strategies. Students who need help with regulation can listen to slow-tempo music with gentle lyrics. Students who need to move physically wi...
Students who struggle with memorization may also benefit from music therapy. Memorization can be difficult for some students, and these issues may leave them lagging behind peers in some academic subjects. To help with memorization, music therapists may recommend that students work on memorizing the lyrics of a favorite song or the notes to play on...
Students who need help with developing and maintaining strength and fine motor control often find music therapy beneficial. Dancing can be used to create muscle control, while also building strength. Students who may balk at more traditional types of physical education movements, such as running or playing sports, may appreciate dancing as a means ...
Music therapy delivers proven success in many cases. Certainly, music therapy doesn’t work for every student. It may deliver incredible results for one student and only sporadic improvements for a similarly aged student who has similar needs. But music therapy for special education students delivers enough successes in a wide range of situations th...
Apr 7, 2020 · Creativity is a powerful teaching tool, and since music is filled with creative interaction, it’s the perfect teaching tool for children with special needs––especially for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other special needs like cerebral palsy, childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), and those with learning disabilities.
Apr 29, 2022 · Music activity for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities can be broadly divided into: 1. musical education, in which the purpose of music is to teach musical skill (Ockelford, 2008); 2. music therapy in which a trained professional music-therapist uses music as a vehicle for therapeutic benefits (Alder and Samsonova-Jellison, 2017; Thompson, 2019); and 3. social music, in ...
Apr 30, 2020 · April 30, 2020. Music is powerful, provides numerous health and wellness benefits, is far reaching and accessible. For people with disabilities, music can offer a form of personalized therapy. After looking at the full spectrum of evidence-based benefits, Medical News Today concluded that music therapy should be used more in health care settings.
Music therapy is considered a related service modality in special education (IDEA, 1997). Music therapy can play an important role in special education because many students with disabilities need special instructional treatment. Music is an ancient method for healing. It neutralizes negative feelings, increases stress tolerance level and ...
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of music therapy interventions (one week to seven months) for autistic children. Music therapy intervention was superior to 'placebo' therapy or standard care with respect to social interaction, non‐verbal and verbal communicative skills, initiating behavior, and social‐emotional reciprocity.
