Music therapy helps recover from Dysphagia which is common among elderly stroke patients where they have difficulty swallowing that often leads to chocking. After a few Music Therapy sessions that involves singing, patients oral motor control, swallowing and breathing are improved. 

Benefits of Music Therapy in Dysphagia Post Stroke 

Motor dysfunction is another complication among stroke patients that can be improved through music therapy that involves listening to music, singing songs or playing instruments that helps regulate neural networks and signal transduction to improve motor function. 

Benefits of Music Therapy and motor dysfunction Post Stroke 

Melodic Intonation Therapy is a type of music therapy that is used to treat aphasia that impairs the understanding of language and language symbols post stroke 

Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) 

Music Therapy helps to strengthen sound perception in stroke patients through melody and rhythm of the music, and  understand language through lyrics and singing. Music is differentiated by the left brain that understands lyrics and differentiates rhythms and the right brain understands the melody. 

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Music Therapy is found to be effective to decrease depression and anxiety, help adults suffered from a stroke and children with autism with their attention span, improve mood and help with social skills and behavior. 

Effectiveness of Music Therapy 

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Benefit of Music Therapy on Stroke Patients 

Adolescents with ASD desire for peer interaction and are likely to experience loneliness during this stage of life. Musical experience helps by excluding dangerous social experience and reduce anxiety that happens during social interaction and improve social skills. 

Use of Music Intervention to Improve Social Skills In Adolescents with ASD. 

Neurological Music Therapy (NMT) includes twenty standardized techniques which are divided into three areas: sensorimotor, language and speech that treat neurodevelopmental disorders like ASD. 

Neurological Music Therapy (NMT) 

ASD and Rhett Syndrome can be detected early in infants when there is disorganized rhythm and synchrony. Rhythm plays an important role in motor control, cognitive functions, and sensory perception in fetus and after birth which is why rhythm is also associated with ASD, Neural malfunction and language problems. 

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