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Language and communication skills refer to the abilities for exchanging intended meaning, feelings, or ideas with others.

 

Studies have revealed the therapeutic effect of music on breathing, vocalization, articulation, verbal expression, and other communicative goals of people with language and communication deficits.

 

Music therapy is highly effective for developing speech and communication skills in children and adults because music, and singing particularly shares common elements with speaking in the vocal frequency and frequency range, rhythm or rate, intensity or volume, diction or articulation, and lyrics or language.

 

Clients can reproduce varying frequencies by following the melody of the song, matching the rhythm, practicing breath control, and producing vocal sounds in the appropriate volume.

 

Music therapy techniques utilizing pitch, rhythm, and dynamic of music were found to be effective on breathing, vocalization, articulation, verbal expression, and other communicative functions of clients with communication impairments.

 

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