Music Therapy
Music Therapy is an established health care profession that uses music to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals of all ages. Music therapy improves the quality of life for persons who are well and meets the needs of children and adults with disabilities or illnesses. Music therapy interventions can be designed to:
- Promote physical rehabilitation
- Improve communication and emotional expression
- Alleviate pain
- Enhance memory
- Manage Stress
- Promote wellness
"The therapy that lies in music can have a far-reaching effect upon the development of children who bear handicaps of mental impairment, emotional disturbances, or physical disability. Music is a universal experience in the sense that all can share in it; its fundamental elements of melody, harmony, and rhythm appeal to and engage their related psychic functions in each one of us. (Nordoff & Robbins, 1971.)"