At 8/2/2005 10:07 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
My wife is a nurse practitioner at the local VA nursing home, wh. offers a
variety of adjuvant therapies including music therapy. The point of music
therapy is to use music to help people with neurological problems to focus
and find workarounds for their condition. Music, for example, is a
tremendous help in memorizing words--all of us know that a poem is much
easier to remember when it is sung. So people with stutters or
word-finding difficulties can be and are helped by using musical mnemonics
to get around the places they get stuck. Similarly, music can help with
coordinating motions, retrieving memories, and so on.
That's what music therapy is, and does. It has a long, long history, and
it works. A lot of us have a visceral negative reaction to the sight of a
bunch of gorked-out elders vaguely trying to get through Mary Had a
Little Lamb--but the fact is that this stuff helps them. The point is good
medicine, not good music.
I have no problem with music therapy for people who can hear.
The studies I read were all about Music Therapy for totally deaf people.
Phil Daley < AutoDesk >
http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley
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