MUSIC THERAPY CLASSES AT BABY PIANO SCHOOL

Music Therapy uses music to address physical, emotional, cognitive, or social challenges. You'll see first-hand the impact music can have on developing a child's potential and enhancing their health, wellness, and quality of life.

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Music has always been a popular tool in child education and studies conclude that music yields positive results in children as a therapeutic aid during their development. This is because music affects the overall development of children on physical, intellectual, and emotional levels, and can be leveraged in limitless ways to guide the growth and blossoming of your young ones.

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For some of the participants, music therapy groups are a chance to learn something musical: to play an instrument, to make the songs come to life, or to understand music more. The experience is often enhanced by the cooperative involvement of others, becoming an event that can give the feeling of being part of something. For others, they are a way to relax and just help guide their emotions.

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To break it down, music therapy is a form of sensory stimulation that provokes conscious and subconscious reactions due to the captivating presence, emotiveness, and sense of security associated with it.

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From a physical standpoint, music therapy classes have the ability to influence the respiratory system, heart rhythm, body posture, and mental images of the listener. Music therapy classes can contribute to a dramatic change in mood which affects the listener on an emotional level. Music has the power to arouse deeper emotions and can guide a child (or an adult) to feel more relaxed, calm, stimulated, or emotionally empty.

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The right type of approach in music therapy classes can be leveraged to support better communication and socialization, and can be used to encourage:

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*Receptiveness (active listening): development of attention, awakening of interest, modification of mood, achieving calmness, and release of energy.

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*Group activities (singing, small instrumental ensembles): encourages a sense of community and belonging to the group, releases energy, and arouses interest.

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*Independent learning (playing an instrument): contributes to self-discipline, gaining self-confidence through practice and success, achieving inner harmony, harmonizing relationships with others, and releasing energy.

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For emotionally affected children such as those who have a tendency to withdraw, have aggressive behavior, children under pressure and autistic children, one of the biggest difficulties is their inability to communicate verbally Music therapy is able to surpass these issues and promote work with them as it can be completely non-verbal and conveys meaning through the emotiveness of tones and melodies. Gaston (1968) recommends music as non-verbal communication by pointing out that music is the most intimate type of non-verbal communication that humanity has intensively nurtured since its inception.