Brain Injury & Neuro-disability
Areas supported by Neurologic Music Therapy™
Speech and Communication
- Enhancing functional and spontaneous speech - improving the clarity of speech
- Improving functional breath support
- Reacquisition of words
Motor Skills
- Improving trunk control
- Improving balance, coordination, posture - supporting gait
- Improving fine and gross motor skills
Cognition
- Addressing and improving difficulties with attention and focus - focus/attention to neglected side.
- Improving executive functioning
- Improving memory/recall
- Supporting sensory processing
Other areas supported by Neurologic Music Therapy™ and music therapy
Emotional Health and Wellbeing
- Promoting self-expression
- Mood elevation
- Increasing confidence and self-esteem
Benefits of Neurologic Music Therapy™ and music therapy?
- Increased confidence
- Enhanced self esteem
- Development of fine and gross motor skills for functional tasks - improved independence
- Opportunities to explore emotions verbally/non-verbally
- Practice of planning, sequencing and memory, allowing for ease of transition and increased independence when discharged back into community/home
- Increasing awareness of self and acceptance during a time of transition from previous to present and present to future condition
Use Your Voice: Aphasia
We are passionate about empowering others to "use their voice" - whether this be musically, functionally and/or metaphorically.
Read moreUsing Music Tech in Neurologic Music Therapy
We used the MindHarp app in our neurologic music therapy sessions at Royal Buckinghamshire Hospital in Aylesbury and the results were very positive.
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Check out our research pieces to find out what work Chiltern Music Therapy is doing.
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