Music therapy in the rehabilitation of children - World Federation of ...

Radbruch, K. (2001) Music therapy in the rehabilitation of children with
cochlear implant (CI). Music Therapy Today (online), November, available at
www.musictherapyworld.info
communication is not always as dominant as we find is in the development of
Marvin.
“...the establishment of dialogical structure, that in itself enables meaning to
be negotiated, is the first important step in communication”. (ALDRIDGE
1996, S. 36)
Completely different are the results of the second child I will show to you
now:
Niklas is a 6-year-old boy. He is tall, full of energy and has broken three
drumsticks during those 10 sessions while playing the drums ...
Niklas’ high grade severe hearing impairment was diagnosed when he was
four months old. At the age of three he got a CI, which he didn’t accept at the
beginning, but finally did half a year later. When I got to know Niklas he had
already had the CI for two and a half years. From his file I get the following
information: “Niklas knows about the communicative character of language
and tries more and more to use this language.”
Let’s have a look at the graph showing Niklas' length of interactive phases:
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Niklas: "Interaction"
Interaktion findet statt Interaktion findet nicht statt
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51
182
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168
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65
Episodes 1 from Session 1, 2 from Session 5, 3 from
Session 10.