Music is the art of combining sounds in a melodic and harmonic way attending to a sequence of rhythms that can be produced by musical instruments. He is able to ignite emotions and generate endorphins helping to function as therapy for all types of people, including people with disabilities.
Thanks to music therapy, music is used as therapy since it gives benefits and helps a great rehabilitation in children with disability problems both in mobility and cognitively.
What is music therapy?
It is a therapy based in the use of music to use it to benefit mental and physical health. In the area of disabled children, will use as language and communication since it will open them in expression of opportunities and will facilitate their advancement in almost all fields.
What is the music teacher like?
A music teacher teaches music theory in order to be practiced, a music therapy teacher uses music to change in improving the life of your patient, you will use it as therapeutic purpose and as a discipline to improve your physical, emotional, social and mental health.
What's your objective?
The goal of this skill is to help children explore and express their feelings, so that they can develop their way of communication and be a great support in their linguistic expression. It is especially recommended in patients suffering from autism, schizophrenia, dementia and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder).
Thanks to this interdisciplinary field, it will help to evolve in the cognitive and social area as mentioned, these factors will help to increase self-esteem and it will decrease anxiety as it works as a relaxant.
How is music therapy practiced in children with disabilities?
As has been explained, through music children achieve emotional self-regulation and consequently their creativity increases. Here are a number of guidelines that are commonly used and are often more experimental:
- Improvisation: is one of the practices that help the most spontaneous creation of your creativityIn this way they will make use of a musical instrument or the use of their own voice and will be able to relate more closely to a song. With this method you can take a closer look how the type of song influences the child.
- Hear: this part is very simple and useful to do. Here the therapist makes a musical selection and lets the child immerse himself in it. The result is to see how the child reacts, what effects they cause, if there is any change and how it relates to it.
- Musical games is another tactic that works very well, since children get involved through play much better in therapy and it is here the therapist who assesses the progress of the children.
What other benefits can it bring?
Listening to music makes all areas of the brain unfold, not only do teachers endorse it, but science itself supports it. Help children better develop their communication with speech and may socialize with less difficulties. In learning it helps the development of getting different resources and increase the ability to function better in life.
She is funny because it offers a happy environment to be able to recreate. With the game better coordinate motor skills, control their impulses and help them develop touch-visual connection, that's why multisensory.
It's exhilarating because it helps them to explore and become attractive to children with disabilities. With all these advantages it will encourage you to becomes a structured therapy, as they will use a lot of predictable repetitions and will learn a self-regulated discipline that will be easy for them to learn.