Chiltern Music Therapy | Early Years

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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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