| dc.description.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. | en |
