BubbleBee Speech Therapy Centre

BubbleBee provides evidence-based use of music intervention to achieve individualized goals by registered Music Therapist. Paediatric music therapy provides a child with unique variety of music experiences matched in a best way to the individual child's development effect changes in behavior and facilitate development of his/her communication, social, sensory, fine and gross motor skills.
A typical music therapy session includes:

Greeting Song
Play musical instruments to activity songs
Create songs together using finger puppets and a variety of toys in order to achieve optimal communication
Floor- time movement
Improvisation using instruments and voice
Relaxation music
Goodbye song

Prior to implementing music therapy, Therapist will perform an assessment to identify child's functional strengths and weaknesses. After initial evaluation, Music Therapist will determine if music therapy is appropriate and outline treatment plan (goals, recommendations for sessions frequency and length of treatment)

Music therapy focuses on meeting therapeutic aims, which distinguishes it from musical entertainment or music education. People of any age or ability may benefit from a music therapy program, regardless of musical skill or background.

Music therapy may be recommended as a separate treatment or may complement speech therapy services. Both music and speech rely on auditory – verbal medium therefore speech-language and music therapy may cater for the same communication goals i.e., strengthening child's ability to sense a rhythm will strengthen his/her ability to produce speech sounds and form words and sentences, music therapy may improve child's sound perception and ability to process spoken messages (improve receptive language skills), singing and using winds may enhance oral motor control, music supports language learning, effecting vocabulary acquisition, proper intonation and grammar, as well as encouraging fluency.

Music Therapy