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From: Anna L. - SLP student
Date: 02 Oct 2008
Time: 11:52:26 -0500
Remote Name: 68.237.51.237
Thank you for contributing this paper. This certainly sounds like an interesting approach to treatment of stuttering. I've heard of music therapy before, but I didn't really know anything about it or the way it works, so thank you for clarifying and explaining that. You mentioned that clients or patients don't have to have any previous musical training to benefit from music therapy, but does the music therapist have to be a musician? I understand that singing personally meaningful improvised songs can give people who stutter confidence in their abilities, but I don't know if any of them would actually resort to singing if they get stuck speaking in real life situations. I agree that speaking is definitely the final goal, not singing, so fading music out sounds like a good strategy.