Arts & Neuroscience

Brain Injury

Measurement

Symposium

(601331) Music therapy interventions for disorders of consciousness: providing treatment and measuring impact.

Presenter(s)

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  Wendy Magee, PhD

  Professor
  Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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  Erin Wegener, MM, MT-BC, NMT Fellow, CBIS

  Music Therapist
  Spectrum Health
  Grand Rapids, Michigan
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  Alika Seu, MM, MT-BC, NMT, CBIS

  Music Therapist
  Spectrum Health
  Grand Rapids, Michigan

Music interventions have been found to promote wakefulness and boost cognition in patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness (O'Kelly et al., 2013; Castro et al., 2015). We will present several case studies where music interventions have promoted recovery, sharing behavioral outcomes and corresponding assessment data. Video examples and live musical demonstrations will illustrate typical Music Sensory Orientation Training interventions, ias well as the evidence-based protocol from the Music Therapy Assessment Tool for Awareness in Disorders of Consciousness (MATADOC – Magee et al., 2014). Through targeting outcomes across several domains, we will demonstrate music therapy's role in interdisciplinary rehabilitation.

Learning Objectives:

• Upon completion, participants will be able to state two anticipated outcomes from using music as an intervention with patients with a disorder of consciousness
• Upon completion, participants will be able to describe three evidence based music interventions for patients with a disorder of consciousness
• Upon completion, participants will be able to name one standardized tool used to measure treatment impact of music interventions with patients with a disorder of consciousness