MU158 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Music Therapy
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Special music education: music teacher or therapist uses adaptive or compensatory techniques to facilitate or maximize music learning of students with special needs in regular school setting. Goals include learning of general musical concepts and skills and musical ensembles. Age appropriate music experiences used to stimulate general developmental growth of infants and preschoolers with no handicaps. Goals: support development of sensorimotor, perceptual, or cognitive skills. To enhance parent child relationships or emotional growth. Use of music in regular preschool or day care programs. Private music teacher or therapist works with non-handicapped students who experience personal obstacles or problems with regard to musical self-expression or music learning process itself. Music used functionally in instructional or learning setting. Therapist uses music to help special students gain nonmusical knowledge and skills essential to or part of education, development, or adaption. Music learning is medium or conduit for achieving academic or adaptive goals of special education. Music therapist working within context of private lesson.
