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From: Krista Cameron
Date: 13 Oct 2008
Time: 21:49:36 -0500
Remote Name: 68.197.63.165
Hi, I am a first year graduate student at NYU in the Speech and Language-Pathology program. I chose this article out of the rest to read and comment on because of all of the controversial things I have heard about music therapy. I have worked in schools with children with Autism where music and art therapy has been used and I still have a few questions. I am in no way degrading your work because I have seen how children seem to enjoy this type of therapy in general. No one can doubt the effectiveness in increasing fluency while singing and I do also understand from your article that you work to fade the singing into more speech like utterances, but do you really think singing a dialouge when stuck or blocked is socially appropriate? I know it is a last resort and that children are taught to fade it out. I am also curious in your personal research and experience if children actually do acquire higher rates of fluency after having undergone a normal length of therapy? Thank you so much for your time.