Author(s)

Lihua Chai ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Zhejiang Vocational College of Special Education, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310023, China

Corresponding Author

Lihua Chai

ABSTRACT

Music therapy is significant in improving the language ability of children with speech impairment, strengthening language rehabilitation training, and enhancing the quality of language rehabilitation for children with speech impairment. Through the ethology analysis of children's language disorders, music therapy is integrated into the rehabilitation training of children's language disorders. Therapists use musical patterns to perceive and produce pitch, melodic contour, and uses rhythmic form to image the language function. The perception of musical elements through listening and singing activities is the standard mechanism involved in music and speech to affect the production of speech. Incorporate functional and specific language (vocabulary) into singing through different types of music therapy techniques, and to make musical elements in songs contribute to the production of language. At the same time, the Chinese academic field should first go beyond the possibility study, actively develop experimental research, learn the international advanced method paradigm, and develop the unified theoretical structure of theory and practice. This can better promote the localization process of music therapy intervention in the language rehabilitation for children with language disorders.

KEYWORDS

Music therapy, children, aphasis, rehabilitation training

CITE THIS PAPER

Lihua Chai, Music Therapy and Rehabilitation Training for Children with Speech Impairment. MEDS Public Health and Preventive Medicine (2023) Vol. 3: 58-65. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/phpm.2023.030109.

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