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PREMATURE BABIES AND MUSIC THERAPY

Our Services In Action

PREMATURE BABIES, INFANTS AND MUSIC THERAPY

Early separation from the in-utero sound of a mother’s heartbeat followed by the noisy surroundings of an intensive care unit can make a premature baby’s acoustic environments become quickly traumatic and difficult to assimilate.

A music therapist can offer live music interventions that promote:

attachment, engagement, comfort and soothing through lullabies, or a song selected and then ideally sung by the parent or carer
opportunities to promote optimal physical and neurological growth
the replication of womb or heartbeat sounds to support acoustic adjustment

Music has also been used to successfully increase feeding patterns by matching the baby’s sucking rate to simple rhythms on a gato drum. Sleep, breathing and decreased stress levels in parents have also been documented as additional outcomes for NICU babies supported by music therapy.

For further information and to find out how we can help contact us.

"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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“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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“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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"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.”

Rigby Hall School, Bromsgrove

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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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“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."

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

“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.”

"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."

“(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.”

"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.”

“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.”

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