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The music therapy program is designed to reach out to families experiencing disadvantage and according to the 2013 Australian Early Development Index more than 32 per cent of children in Loganlea have been identified as developmentally vulnerable compared to the average Australian child. Read more here…

Doctors say that music therapy is effective for diseases such as stroke, heart attacks, cancer and diabetics. Well-known Malayalam lyricist, Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri,  is an expert in the domain of music therapy. According to him, there was a portion in music known as ‘Santhwana’ . The music therapy in the present age is largely based on it. Read more here…

Many other studies in recent years have shown that different types of music encourage different outcomes in humans. Soothing tunes tend to more effectively address conditions such as pain, stress and sleeplessness, while more upbeat tunes can boost mood and improve mobility.  Read more here…

Music therapy has been around for many years, however the Creative Music Therapy approach was pioneered by Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins from the late 1950s to the mid ’70s. Paul Nordoff was a composer and Clive Robbins a special education teacher.  Read more here…

Sallam explained that music in general speaks to the unconscious of the listener. “If you are hiding a problem, listening to my music will make it rise to the surface and you will speak to me about it. And then, as a psychotherapist, I will find a solution to it.” Music therapy was common in Ancient Egypt but the practice disappeared until 2001 when the Egyptian Ministry of Health formally recognised it.  Read more here…

It’s the transformative moments that Nancy Skaliotis will most remember — like a smile sweeping across the face of a young autistic child as his usually repetitive body moves in concert with the notes he’s hearing. Read more here…

When Akron Children’s Hospital music therapist Sarah Tobias visits him every week or two, the constant whooshing sounds of the dialysis machine are replaced with the strumming of her guitar and the soothing blending of their voices. Read more here…

From autism to cerebral palsy – whether high functioning or more involved – the American Music Therapy Association states, “Research supports connections between speech and singing, rhythm and motor behavior, memory for song and memory for academic material, and overall ability of preferred music to enhance mood, attention, and behavior to optimize the student’s ability to learn and interact.”  Amy further explains, “Music that has a predictable structure can help children to process and remember ideas, movements, and language.”  Read more here…

Silence in music therapy, as in life, can take on many qualities. It can be oppressive or mutual, uncomfortable or soothing. I often find in music therapy with verbal adults that when a long musical improvisation ends it is very difficult to come straight back ‘into words’. Here an instinctive shared silence – sometimes of as long as a minute, can act as a de-compression chamber allowing us time to return from the intimacy of spontaneous shared music-making back into the realm of words and interpretation. Read more here…

The researchers studied 373 patients in several Minneapolis-St Paul-area hospital ICUs. A third received music therapy, with a therapist compiling a playlist of each patient’s favourite recordings to continuously loop on a bedside CD player. A third of the patients were offered noise-cancelling headphones to put on whenever they wished. The final third, the control group, received standard care. Read more here…