Concetta Tomaino, DA, MT-BC, Institute for Music and Neurological Function:
Music that’s familiar is able to grab the attention of somebody with dementia and engages them in the moment of that experience, so much so that the attention and the holding of that attention allows for other function to happen.
ANNOUNCER:
Making music can also be an important part of rehabilitation.
David Ramsey, DA AMCT, Music Therapist:
That’s where we start a lot of the times when we’re doing music speech rehabilitation, is with the singing. It organizes the speech, the vocal processing in a way that is fluid, that they cannot do outside of the music.
ANNOUNCER:
For therapists like Marah, the reward is in the results.
Marah Bobilin, MT-BC, Music Therapist:
To use it to bring someone to a higher level of functioning, closer to what they were able to do before the neurologic disorder is very rewarding. It’s beautiful. It’s a beautiful thing to see.
ANNOUNCER:
Thanks for joining us on today’s Once Daily.
