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Early Years

Purpose of music therapy?

  • To foster children’s innate playfulness, whatever difficulties they may experience
  • To develop relationships with others through deliberate listening and participation
  • To experience structured, social activities within a fun, musical context.
  • To enhance and extend learning through musical repetition and experimentation
  • To develop awareness of self in improvised music
  • To support carers experiencing neonatal depression

Benefits of music therapy?

  • Increased confidence
  • Development of fine and gross motor skills
  • Practice of planning, sequencing, memory
  • Decision making
  • Development of creativity and imagination
  • Opportunities for family involvement and benefits to attachment and interaction
  • Discovery and celebration of musical skills
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Supporting Families in the NICU: How Children in Need Helps Bring Music Therapy to The Whittington Hospital

Discover how Children in Need’s support enables Chiltern Music Therapy to bring comfort and connection to families in the NICU through music therapy.

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