Abstract
Music Therapy for Multisensory and Body Awareness in Children and Adults With Severe to Profound Multiple Disabilities: The MuSense Manual introduces an original music-based program for music therapists to incorporate when helping individuals with profound intellectual and developmental disabilities develop sensory and body awareness. The authors, Roberta Adler and Olga Samsonova-Jellison, developed the MuSense Program after 12 years of searching for best practice solutions to meet the needs of their clients, individuals who, due to their disability, seemed to have little to no awareness of their bodies or the world. Rooted in humanistic philosophy, the MuSense Program is also informed by neurological, developmental, improvisational, and behavioral music therapy treatment approaches. Though no systematic explorations of the efficacy of this program are mentioned, the manual does include numerous vignettes compiled from the authors’ combined 43 years of clinical practice as a way to highlight the program’s impact. In this way, Adler and Samsonova-Jellison’s text provides an example of compiling case narrative examples in a clinical environment to enhance knowledge with real-world practice.
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