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Music-based therapy helps non-verbal autistic children to utter speech for the first time
For a few years now there has been a great deal of interest in Melodic Intonation Therapy, a singing-based intervention that has been extensively tested by Gottfried Schlaug’s Boston group. This specially adapted sing-song training has been shown to help people with non-fluent aphasia (usually after stroke) regain some ability to speak. Today’s blog is about a variant of this type of therapy that has been tested by one of the Schlaug lab members, Catherine Wan, which can aid speech production in non-verbal autistic children. In June of this year I attended Music and Neurosciences IV conference in Edinburgh and this was where I first heard about Auditory Motor Mapping…
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Two interesting job opportunities
Visiting Fellowship: Creative Musical Performance (Kings College London) The AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP) is offering Visiting Fellowships on a competitive basis to musicologists, musicians and those working in cognate fields from the UK and overseas who wish to spend up to three months undertaking collaborative research at any one of the Centre’s partner institutions, i.e. University ofCambridge, King’s College London, University of Oxford, and Royal Holloway,University of London. Visiting Fellows will have the opportunity to gain exposure to CMPCP’s research activities, to share their work with CMPCP staff and students both at the institution where they are based and throughout CMPCP, and to contribute…
