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

on the latent capacities of this child. His extreme desire
and necessity of expression, which have been blocked
from birth, by his mother and grandmother.
With "Carlos" I made a discovery myself: the
conveninece of fallowing the child in the musical
dialogue, in orther to stimulate his creat tivity and gave
him ego support. With "Carlos" this were the key for a
very good progress,
techniques.
toguether with thi rest of
The first words pronounced was as a consequence of to
feel well and warmtly accepted, more shure of themself
and less anxious and depressive.
The first word was: "guagua" (agua== watter), when I
have shown a pos ter with a lake and very higth
mountains.
The next were in front of a poster with a farm with anima
nounce clearly each animal voice while pointing it: cat,
dog, horse, hen. duck.
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Progressibly: "mujica"--musica (music).- "disco"
(record).- "mujica bonita" (nice music).- "azul" (blue).-
"rojo"= (red).- "piano", etc.
This child apparently was not paying attention in his
class, becouse I could found that he knew many
alphabetic lettres: m, p, s, r, l, d, r, n, and all the vocals.It
was when I put him in front of a typewritting machine.
When I left the school, in June 1981, "Carlo” was
speaking, playing with other children, could started
reading, etc.
After see "Carlos" a few month ago, I was asking me
what could be his development now if the Music
Therapy sessions would continue, instead to stop when
stil the child was needing them.
I think music therapy it is fundamental for autistic and
psychotic children