Description of the FMT method
Functionally oriented music therapy is an individual method of treatment
in which roughly 30 musical codes are used
to stimulate the body’s natural development.
FMT is at the same time an analysis tool for the assessment of the personal functional capacity.
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The FMT method is built on the idea of creating a space; a space,
structured senso-motor treatment in a safe, secure and joyful form,
without demands of evaluation or performance.
The own activity and the own initiative, which are the bases for all personal development, are stimulated in the musical interplay between the therapist and the client. This activity is enticed by the specially composed music-codes, which are adapted to the client’s actual level of development. |
 Lasse Hjelm |
The FMT session creates opportunities for structured perceptual- and motor treatment which influences the natural development of motor-, perceptual-, cognitive- and emotional functions based upon the client’s functional level.
This makes the method useful to all ages and has showed success in treatment of a very wide spectrum of difficulties or disabilities like reading-/writing difficulties, concentration disorders, psychic problems, motor disorders, DAMP/ADHD, paralyses etc.
- The FMT method – does not teach
- The FMT method – seeks the primary cause of the problems
- The FMT method – treats/structures brain activity
- The FMT method – treats; organises requisite basic functions
- The FMT method – creates conditions and urges the development of skills (for example to learn how to read)