Medical Prefixes
Prefix Thromb/o- means
Blood clot
This symptom describes a lack of balance / sense of position in space, uncoordinated movement
Ataxia
The art of harmonious bodily movement especially through expressive
timed movements in response to improvised music is also known as...
Eurythmics
What NMT technique does this describe?
Uses the rhythmic, melodic, harmonic & dynamic acoustical elements of music to provide temporal, spatial & force cues for movements that reflect functional exercises and activities of daily living.
Patterned Sensory Enhancement (PSE)
Guitar tuning using D A D G A D is called what type of tuning system. Where is it most often found?
Modal D Tuning; most commonly found in Celtic music as well as English and Irish folk
Prefix Tympan/o- means
Eardrum
What limbs are affected by a hemiplegic?
Upper and Lower Limb on one side of the body
This ABA technique involves systematically reinforcing each "chained" behavior as they begin to approximate the desired behavior.
Shaping
Which approach does this describe?
Solfege (sight-singing & ear training), Improvisation and Eurhythmics together work to improve expressive musicality and enhance intellectual understanding.
Music may be experienced through speech, gesture, and movement. Can likewise be experienced in time, space and energy.
Dalcroze Approach
List the pitches for each string used in Open G tuning
D G D G B D
Prefix Vasculo means
blood vessel
This disorder is a rare genetic neurological disorder that leads to severe impairments, affecting nearly all parts of an individual's life due to difficulties with speech, ambulation, eating and breathing. Is diagnosed between 6 - 18 months as an individual misses developmental milestones or loses abilities they have gained.
Rett Syndrome
What NMT technique does this describe?
a therapeutic application of pulsed
rhythmic or musical stimulation in order to improve gait or gait related aspects of
movement
Rhythmic-Auditory Stimulation (RAS)
What NMT technique does this describe?
Use of improvisation & composition exercises to practice executive functioning skills such as organization, problem solving, decision making, reasoning and comprehension.
Musical Executive Functioning Training (MEFT)
ABACA is what musical form
Prefix Sclera/o- means
Hardness
This neurobehavioral disorder is characterized by developmental delay, intellectual disability (usually mild), a specific cognitive profile, unique personality characteristics, cardiovascular disease, connective tissue abnormalities, growth deficiency, endocrine abnormalities, and distinctive facies. Hypotonia and hyperextensible joints can result in delayed attainment of motor milestones. Feeding difficulties often lead to poor weight gain in infancy.
Williams Syndrome
List Piaget's 4 Stages of Cognitive Development
Sensorimotor: Birth to 24 months
Preoperational: 24 months - 7 Years
Concrete: 7 to 11 years
Formal: 12 years and older
What approach does this describe?
Emphasizing music training begins in early life with teaching and learning of music
through direct experiences and encounters.
Based on singing, folk music, solfege, and the moveable "Do".
Kodaly Approach
What makes a Phrygian scale different from a natural minor scale? Which scale degree is affected and how?
Prefix Schiz/o- means
Split; Cleft
This disease is an inherited disorder affecting the central nervous system (nerve cells in the brain break down and die) and causing involuntary movement and contortions. May also cause cognitive decline and behavioral symptoms.
Huntington's Disease
Which approach does this describe?
a. Allowing everyone to participate
b. Beginning where the individual is developmentally
c. Using a multisensory approach
d. Using rhythm as the underlying foundation of elemental music
e. Moving from the experimental to conceptual
f. Designing experiences that are success oriented
g. Using culturally specific material
h. Focusing on the process rather than the product.
Orff Approach
What NMT technique does this describe?
Use of musical exercises to address various memory encoding and decoding / recall functions.
Musical Mnemonics Training (MMT)
Name the order of notes in a scale (tonic, dominant, etc.)
Tonic, Supertonic, Mediant, Subdominant, Dominant, Submediant, Leading Tone