Anger Management and Music Therapy
Music Therapy is far from the first thing we associate with anger management, but music can be a helpful tool in learning to manage...
The effects of music therapy in children with delayed speech development: Results of a pilot study
Background Language development is one of the most significant processes of early childhood development. Children with delayed speech...
Improvisation in Psychiatric Adolescence Music Therapy
Based on my personal clinical experience, I have divided adolescent music therapy into three stages; interest, learning and improvisation...
Something to sing about
It is perhaps rare, particularly these days, when any of us feel like we have something, or indeed anything, to sing about. Yet singing...
The Free Pre-school Year and Children with Special Needs
The Free Pre-school Year and Children with Special Needs The Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA), have put in place an age...
Support the Musical Youth Foundation
The Musical Youth Foundation is a children's charity that aims to provide every child on the island of Ireland with musical education....
New Therapy Helps Nonverbal Children With Autism to Say First Words
Auditory Motor-Mapping Training The AMMT treatment uses a combination of singing (intonation) and motor activities to strengthen a...
Right note: Seeking professional status
Music therapists are campaigning alongside other creative arts therapists – drama, art, dance and movement therapists – to be included in...