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

The quality of "to wonder" is latent in every child when
he awake to world arround him, a reality that he has
never experienced before. In traditional pedagogy, the
saying goes: "Nothing enters the intelligence which has
not previously passed through the senses". But this
leaves out something fundamental as I realized when I
treat that girld.The old saying should really be: "There is
nothing that enters the intelligence which has not
previously passed through the senses, but in an
affective and vital way ". Becouse no development is
possible neither corporal, nor intellectual, nor spiritual,
without affection .
With these children, the problem is nor in their senses
but in the lack of interest and in the blocket affective live.
They have not interest in things as things, or persons as
persons, but only in the affe tive meaning that they have
for them. For that, if we want the child to reorn to reality,
or to learn, we had, seems to me, to sorround thing
persons or situations with amotion,affection, beauty, at
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the beggining of the treatment., spetially. If the firsth
contact with a thing is bei surrounded by a certain
dramatism, surprise, stetic and emotional
athmosphere, it will be engraved in his mind, always.
There is nothing like music to awaken the creativity of
the child, even autistic or psychotic. I found that music
was the most effective way to awaken interest, much
more than drawings, photographs and candy.
METHODOLOGY:
STAGES IN TREATMENT: A) PREPARATION :
I.- To get INFORMATION from: Psychiatrist, Clinical
Psychologist or Teacher (if patient is in Spetia]
Education School). Mother and father (separatly). Social
Worker
II.-
OBSERVATION period : arround 15 days.