What is music therapy? Is it a kind of “alternative” thing? When referring to music, we usually think of a structured, organized art form. Our idea of music mainly involves aesthetics, but when listening to it we not only admire its beauty. We love music because it moves our emotions. Let’s look at the therapeutic possibilities of music from another perspective. We are all familiar with psychotherapy. Regardless of the approach (it could be cognitive, behavioral, psychoanalytic, gestalt), they …
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Redefining Autism: From Disability to Talent. This was the title of a lecture I gave, together with music therapist Nuria Escudé, at the V International Conference of the International Association …
I was 12, and my parents decided to change the carpet that covered the entire floor of our flat with a wooden floor. Because I had asthma, and carpets are not …
Self-stimulatory behaviors, also called stimming, are one of the typical features of autism. They are repetitive, stereotyped movements of the whole body (rocking, spinning) or just one part of it (flapping …
Music, as we know it today, can be seen as a structured language. A codified system, molded by cultural factors, which allows the organization of what otherwise would be an …