Health Services
CHILDREN
Health Services
CHILDREN
Watch Reuben, a 4 year old with complex health needs, relaxing with his MTW music therapist, Melody, and the Acorns Hospice outreach team. Reuben is often very tense so Melody plays music to help him to feel comfortable and to create opportunities for fun in the session.

Music therapy can promote healing and be transformational for children at a time when it is challenging for them to express themselves verbally. Working with the multi-disciplinary team, music therapists can enable a child to begin processing their issues through musical play and interactions, improvised song lyrics and sharing music with their family and siblings. 
Music therapy can:
  • Support pain management
  • Improve muscle flexibility and coordination
  • Assist in developing social and communication skills, including speech
  • Have a calming and relaxing effect
  • Encourage movement, muscle flexibility and coordination
  • Alleviate depression
  • Help the child to process loss
  • Enable the child to communicate difficult feelings or emotions
  • Provide the experience of exploring leading, following and sharing through music-making
  • Offer moments of control and leading at a time when they or their families may feel disempowered
MTW music therapists can work with children and their families in:
  • Hospitals
  • Hospices
  • Healthcare centre
  • Nurseries

The sessions can involve live music-making with instruments, song-writing, creating CDs, legacy music or listening to favourite pieces.
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