23/06/2025
The NDIS has kept music therapy participants and therapists waiting too long. The delay in announcing the findings of their review is causing undue stress and expenses to everyone involved. I am calling on the NDIS to permanently reinstate music therapy as an NDIS therapeutic support.
ID: A wordy infographic with bubbles of text showing examples of Musical Executive Function Training (MEFT)® which is is a technique of Neurologic Music Therapy® (NMT™).
Further text reads: The client creates a musical composition and is guided by questions about structure, instrumentation and performance; The client plays a single, dedicated pattern while others play contrasting distracting patterns; Playing “tennis” with a rhythm, with 2 people on drums. Then, the recipient gives a new rhythm to the initiator.; The Client is asked to initiate a rhythm, RMT copies, and client is tasked to ‘stop’ that rhythm.; The RMT establishes a drumming pattern, and then omits one of the counts (1,2,3,4; later 1,2,-,4); Mad libs: The Client substitutes their own meaningful key words into a known song.
(MEFT)® is used with clients wanting to improve their executive function (it’s a bit like ‘thinking power’) This may include clients with ADHD, TBI, CVA, brain tumours, MS, Parkinsons, Anorexia, Neurological diseases and other brain injuries.
Music therapy uniquely uses music and rhythm to recruit and unite multiple parts of the brain for functional change.
My clients frequently say “it’s the only therapy that’s working”.
The NDIS needs to know we are reasonable, necessary, and value for money
I’m calling on the NDIS to fund music therapy, and announce the findings of their recent review.
