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

Estos descubrimientos fueron el resultado de
entrevistas con una muestra representativa de
musicoterapeutas que trabajan en los centros de
rehabilitación de Holanda. Se pidió al terapeuta que
describiese detalladamente el progreso experimentado
por hasta cinco de sus pacientes. Sobre 29 casos
descritos de esta manera, en al menos cinco de ellos se
había conseguido un progreso - a veces considerable -
en la restauración de la función del habla en los
pacientes.
M U S I C T H E R A P Y I N T H E T R E A T M E N T O F A
C H I L D S U F F E R I N G F R O M A U T I S M / L A
M U S I C O T E R A P I A E N E L T R A T A M I E N T O D E U N
N I Ñ O A U T I S T A
LETICIA MORAES LEITE PEREIRA
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Age: 7 at the beginning of the treatment.
Motive for treatment: schooling inadaptation problems,
lack of a sense of reality, frequent "attacks of fury".
He is obsessed and has a fixation on hero-magazines.
He always plays the role of the hero in the stories,
whatever magazine he may have in his hands.
His behaviour at school is quite inadequate. He would
speak loudly, shout, gesticulate, hit away at thin air until
he reached total uncontrolled fury in any situations he
did not feel sure in. Once he felt relieved, he would go to
one side of the room, lie under the desks and eat
anything he would find on the floor.
His referral to a children's psychiatric institution
depended solely on the school's technical team.
Among the many cases of Autism I had worked on, this
one seemed particularly interesting for the following
reasons: