What is Music Therapy?
Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program. (musictherapy.org, 2011)
Music Therapy is an established health profession through which music is used as an effective tool for behavioral, emotional, psychological, and cognitive change. Music therapists have substantial college-level education and supervised clinical training experience in the ability to use music as its own format for assessment, intervention, and evaluation.
Music therapy interventions have been shown to help children with autism in the following areas:
Music Therapy is an established health profession through which music is used as an effective tool for behavioral, emotional, psychological, and cognitive change. Music therapists have substantial college-level education and supervised clinical training experience in the ability to use music as its own format for assessment, intervention, and evaluation.
Music therapy interventions have been shown to help children with autism in the following areas:
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• Increased attention
• Improved behavior • Decreased self-stimulation • Enhanced auditory processing • Improved cognitive functioning |
• Decreased agitation
• Increased socialization • Improved verbal skills • Successful and safe self-expression • Enhanced sensory-motor skills |
