{"id":1164,"date":"2015-04-14T21:06:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T21:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2015-04-14T21:06:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T21:06:43","slug":"reaching-moldova-through-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/2015\/04\/14\/reaching-moldova-through-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching Moldova through music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our music therapy lecturer Sarah Hodkinson is lead music therapy clinician of a strategy team that has been working in Moldova for several years.\u00a0 Here she tells us about some recent exciting developments\"Moldova01\"<\/a> : <\/em>The team, comprising of Deborah Green (speech and language therapist), Alice Baxter (music therapy student) and Jane Ebel (project director) as well as myself as music therapy clinician,\u00a0 have been working with local Moldovan partners to introduce music therapy for children with disabilities in Baby Homes and centres. This work supports the deinstitutionalisation of a regime of orphaning children with disabilities, and focuses on training and equipping professionals and parents to care for these children in environments where they can thrive, such as homes and schools.<\/p>\n

\"Moldova02\"<\/a>Music therapy has the potential to play a key role in this transformation. Over the last five years, we have developed a\u00a0 bespoke technique named \u2018Communication Through Music\u2019 or \u2018Com-musicating\u2019. This draws on key principles from music therapy and speech and language therapy. It allows children with complex disabilities to use music as a means of developing fundamental, early communication skills, giving them a voice and means of interaction that in many cases has not existed previously. Learning \u2018Communication Through Music\u2019 techniques enables practitioners to support children in meeting key developmental milestones.<\/p>\n

\"Moldova03\"<\/a>We have produced a training DVD featuring music therapy sessions filmed in Moldova. British Ambassador Phil Watson hosted a launch and reception at his residence on Thursday 9th<\/sup> April, announcing the significance of this programme for vulnerable children and the excitement as this approach is internationalised.<\/p>\n

\"Moldova04\"<\/a>Last week the Communication Through Music<\/em> DVD was used for the first time, as thirty professionals came together in Moldova\u2019s capital Chisinau to receive specialist training. These professionals returned to their centres and began working with children immediately. When asked why this might be of value a centre director responded, ‘because it works and we need it and because it doesn\u2019t exist here. I have seen it working over the past 3-4 years. For many severely disabled children we don\u2019t have an answer and then we find out that music is the answer for some children. So now it needs to be widespread, reaching the smallest, poorest, most rural kindergartens’.\"Moldova05\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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