23.7. 1993 Vitoria-Gasteiz / Spain - World Federation of Music Therapy

- Baby-massage, which has the primary aim of
facilitating and strengthening the affective contact
between parents and child, to improve the child's overall
perception of his body.
- Practical activities with mothers or fathers,
with the purpose of inventing and constructing play
material for the child.
- Psychological counselling, to provide the
families with necessary support, paying particular
attention to the relationship between parents and child.
We also have at the family's disposal an
ophthalmologist, a neuropsychiatrist, a low vision
trainer, a speech therapist, a music therapist and an
optometrist, as specialized advisers.
Physiotherapy in early intervention.
Already in the first month of life, the child begins to
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interact with the world around him, and through
movement learns simples activities before going on to
develop those which are more complex.
The first movements are the basis of his future
development, which is the postnatal continuation of the
maturation of the sensorimotor process which was first
begun during the child's intrauterine life.
Every child with problems (disorder of neurological,
sensory and psychological development, prematurity,
hypotonia, and so on) is a human being with his own
special individuality. It is of vital importance to recognise
the major problem of the child and his family and on this
basis to establish a therapeutic program which will
continually take into account the child's particular
needs.
What is the child able to do? How does he do it? What
can he not do? and for what reason? How does he
move in space? How does he get his food? How should