Article about Music Therapy

Our daughter has always been motivated by music even back to the days of Early Intervention music was her bridge in establishing new relationships with therapists, helping with her evaluations with doctors, therapists, and  schools. To this day, we're finding music and singing at a slower pace with certain songs might actually help bridge her communication struggles with Apraxia with vocalization strategies. With some things I've read they say music uses a different quadrant of the brain that's different from the speech quadrant where our daughter struggles. We're finding the music portion actually is getting her voice to work and she's getting the tonality, pace and rhythm too which is very promising to us.

Chicago Special Parent wrote an article on this very subject. Now there's some cautions of what is a true certified  music therapist and as you read this article you'll see the qualifications are pretty extensive. It's challenging to find a music therapist and even Early Intervention at our time there couldn't give us one as they just don't have them in their roster or at least not certified. I'm told there isn't many and I'm forever on a search for that perfect match that will help our daughter vocalize. So for us that perfect combination of speech and music is what we need.

Now with these added qualifications I realize cost will of course be an issue. The more qualifications the higher the session visit costs. I plan to research this further and will post the outcomes in a later time. In the meantime this should at least help get your arms around the topic and just know music is an excellent motivator qualified or not for all aspects of the therapy routines.

Visit http://www.chicagoparent.com/magazines/special-parent/2011-summer/features/music-therapy