Music Therapy with Children is an introduction to what music therapy is capable of with Profoundly handicapped children. It Presents case studies of children with different handicaps, who are helped through the use of music. Nadine is a German child who is blind and was experiencing many diffculties in communicating with the Outside world. The case study on the CD-ROM shows how through music therapy, she develops vocal abilities and begins to sing. She now attends a school for normal children despite her blindness.

Nicole, from the Nordoff Robbins Center in New York, is also blind and withdrawn. Tbrough the use of musical improvisations she is encouraged to Communicate and at the end of the video example, it is shown how she is able to enjoy a world of both sound and movement. This theme of sensory development and the entry into a world of communicative richness through music is one tha children who attended the Institute for Music with their handicaps. Stefan is a multiply handicapped child from Denmark. Despite his condition, the video demonstrates how he responds to music and how accompanied by explanatory texts and it is possible to steer through the video samples.

Readership: Music therapists, counselors, social workers, Parents of developmentally-challenged children.