[PsychToday] Can You Divorce Music from Communication?

I heard a claim this week that has thrown me for a loop:

Music therapists should not be allowed to work by themselves with individuals with communication disorders.

Given that I am a board certified music therapist (and have been for 10 years), my reaction to this claim is likely stronger than most. Nonetheless, I am struggling to understanding how music can be divorced from communication. Certainly you can have communication without music . . . but can you have music without communication? Read more . . .

Tagged as: collaboration, communication, Music Therapy, neuroscience, speech development, speech disorders, speech rehabilitation