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

especialmente con una joven que sufría pérdidas de
memoria y tenía dificultades para visualizar después de
padecer una encefalitis. Mi trabajo como
musicoterapeuta se ha desarrollado en un proyecto
especial de rehabilitación en un hospital de Estocolmo.
M U S I C T H E R A P Y A N D A P H A S I A /
M U S I C O T E R A P I A Y A F A S I A
BEP LAMEIJER- STERENBERG & C. ROMIJN
In our paper a specific method of Music therapy will be
discussed that is being developed in the Netherlands at
this moment. Judging from preliminary results of our
project, Music therapy, as it is used by Dutch music
therapists, seems to not only have a speech-replacing
function but also a speech-restoring function for a
relatively high number of aphasic patients that have
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been treated. These findings came forward as a result
of interviews with a representative sample of music
therapists working in rehabilitation-centers in the
Netherlands. The therapist were asked to describe in
detail how for up to five patients their treatment
progressed. It appeared that of the 29 cases that were
related in this way, in no less than five cases,
sometimes considerable, progress had been made in
restoring speech-functions in patients.
En nuestra ponencia presentamos un método
específico de Musicoterapia que se está actualmente
desarrollando en Holanda. A juzgar por los resultados
preliminares de nuestro proyecto, la Musicoterapia, así
como es utilizada por los musicoterapeutas
holandeses, parece no sólo tener una función de
sustitución del habla, sino también una función de
restauración del habla en un número relativamente
elevado de pacientes afásicos que fueron tratados.