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Health Services

NEUROLOGIC MUSIC THERAPY

Health Services

NEUROLOGIC MUSIC THERAPY

Several Music Therapy Works' therapists have further training as Neurologic Music Therapists.

NMT is a research-based system of 20 standardised clinical techniques for use in sensorimotor training, speech and language training and cognitive training.

Populations served by Neurologic Music Therapists include those having experienced:

Stroke
Acquired brain injury
Parkinson’s Disease
Cerebral palsy
Alzheimer’s disease,
Neurological diseases affecting cognition, movement, and communication

Specialist NMT Techniques include:

Melodic Intonation Therapy
Patterned Sensory Enhancement
Musical Speech Stimulation
Oral and Motor Respiratory Exercises
Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation
Associative Mood and Memory Training
Musical Sensory Orientation Training
Musical Neglect Training

NMT is practised using a Transformational Design Model which ensures the application of the most appropriate clinical technique and quantifiable clinical results.

“(Music Therapy) gives all of the children a space to express themselves. We notice a change in them whilst in the sessions. We also notice that they come back to class calmer.”

Rigby Hall School, Bromsgrove

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“Due to music therapy... we have noticed that the school is a calmer place to be. We have also noticed that there has been an increase in turn-taking skills, participation and attention / concentration skills.”

Dame Ellen Pinsent School Birmingham

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"I am glad that I am alive...joyful in the moment...there was something about music that enclosed me."

Martha, a cancer patient describing her experience of Music Therapy

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“Music allows us to meet clients at these moments where there are no words. It provides a language which the music therapist uses to allow each individual to process and move through even the most unbearable experiences.”

Eleanor Tingle, MTW Chief Exec

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“Her relationship with the music therapist is the only remaining relationship in my mother’s life. She glows after her sessions.”

Daughter of an elderly MTW client with dementia

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"This specialist support [music therapy] has contributed to a reduction in the number of student behavioural incidents and to improvements in the levels of students’ confidence and skills development.”

OFSTED inspection report, Trinity Specialist College

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"As an MTW approved supervisor, I have witnessed MTW MTs encouraging, reflecting and reaching deeply held feelings that may not have otherwise ever have been expressed or heard. They then use these observations and information to determine the best way forward for a successful therapeutic process."

Dr Teresa Madurai, Clinical Psychologist, University of Birmingham

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“(Music Therapy) gives all of the children a space to express themselves. We notice a change in them whilst in the sessions. We also notice that they come back to class calmer.”

“Due to music therapy... we have noticed that the school is a calmer place to be. We have also noticed that there has been an increase in turn-taking skills, participation and attention / concentration skills.”

"I am glad that I am alive...joyful in the moment...there was something about music that enclosed me."

“Music allows us to meet clients at these moments where there are no words. It provides a language which the music therapist uses to allow each individual to process and move through even the most unbearable experiences.”

“Her relationship with the music therapist is the only remaining relationship in my mother’s life. She glows after her sessions.”

"This specialist support [music therapy] has contributed to a reduction in the number of student behavioural incidents and to improvements in the levels of students’ confidence and skills development.”

"As an MTW approved supervisor, I have witnessed MTW MTs encouraging, reflecting and reaching deeply held feelings that may not have otherwise ever have been expressed or heard. They then use these observations and information to determine the best way forward for a successful therapeutic process."

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