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Namah Vol. 28, Issue 3, 15th October 2020

Hearing Association (1), dysarthria can affect of music therapy developed for people
one or more of the following five systems suffering from cognitive, sensory, or motor
that speech involves: dysfunctions arising from neurological
diseases of the nervous system. People
• Respiration: respiration moves air across who can benefit from this therapy include
the vocal cords, creating sounds that the patients suffering from stroke, traumatic
mouth and nose shape into words. brain injury, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s
• Phonation: this system uses airflow from the diseases, cerebral palsy, Alzheimer’s
lungs plus vocal cord vibrations to produce disease, autism, and other neurological
speech sounds. diseases affecting cognition, movement
• Resonance: resonance refers to the quality of and communication.
speech sounds that the vocal tract produces. In the Rhythmic Speech Cueing (RSC) tech-
• Articulation: this term means shaping sounds nique, speech rate control via auditory rhythm
into recognisable words, which involves is used to improve temporal characteristics
forming precise and accurate vowels and such as fluency, articulatory rate, pause time,
consonants. and intelligibility of speaking. Speech rate can
• Prosody: the rhythm and intonation of speech be the primary therapeutic focus as in fluency
that give words and phrases their meaning. disorders, or the tempo of speech can take on
a mediating role for articulatory precision and
These five speech systems work together, thus speech intelligibility.
meaning that impairment in one system can
affect the others. Therapeutic Singing (TS) refers to the more
generalised use of singing activities for a
The American Music Therapy Association variety of therapeutic purposes. Therapeutic
defines music therapy as the clinical and singing allows direct engagement in musical
evidence-based use of music interventions creation. It can be a very success-oriented
to accomplish individualised goals within technique, thus providing important motivational
a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed input in tandem with functional enhancements
professional who has completed an approved to the client. This technique can synthesise a
music therapy programme (2). range of specific speech-language and respiratory
control. (3)
Music therapy interventions can be designed to:
Target population
• Promote wellness
• Manage stress In this research paper, the main clinical
• Alleviate pain target population for induced speech and
• Express feelings communication through music therapy is
• Enhance memory sufferers of acquired dysarthria. This is a
• Improve communication neurological motor-speech impairment
• Promote physical rehabilitation characterised by slow or hastened, weak,
uncoordinated movements of the articulatory
Neurologic music therapy (NMT) is a form muscles. It results in reduced speech

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