Muzykoterapia w czasie wolnym dziecka niepełnosprawnego

Abstract

Music is a branch of art that is becoming more and more frequently employed in the pedagogical, therapeutic and rehabilitating activities. It is methodically used in a number of ways to diagnose, facilitate, correct and compensate for the impaired functions of a child’s organism and to accommodate him or her to living and functioning in the conditions of limited physical, psychomotor or intellectual capacity. Understood in such a way, the method of art therapy may be a proposition of an unconventional way of spending spare time by disabled children. They can participate in musicotherapeutic activities voluntarily and in accordance with their interests. Thanks to the richness of the means, meetings of this type may provide a child with entertainment adjusted to his or her abilities, predispositions, limitations and expectations. All children can take part in music therapy – individual and group – regardless of their age, abilities (mainly musical), state of health, psychophysical and intellectual abilities, family situation, place of abode, prognosis, etc. Music therapy may be, among others, an effective way of overcoming the everyday monotony of the institution in which a disabled child is on everyday basis.