ABSTRACT
Many music therapists will encounter people with some brain damage in the course of their work. This chapter is specifically concerned with people who have led ‘normal’ lives but who have acquired brain damage later in life due either to trauma, stroke or degenerative neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease or Huntington’s Disease. However, similar types of disabilities and the emotional distress that accompanies them may be found within the context of different client groups; for example, people brain-damaged at birth within the field of learning disabilities, and those with Alzheimer’s Disease in the ‘older adult’ client group.
