Assistive Technology for playing wind instrument with tracheotomy

Abstract

The writing offered below is the Spanish translation of a paper that was presented in the 17th World Congress of Music Therapy in the city of Vancouver, Canada, which took place from July 24 to 29, 2023. The text presented here was published in English as part of the Proceedings of the 17th World Congress of Music Therapy in the Special Issue of Music Therapy Today the same year. The work exhibits a contribution that Assistive Technology can offer to music therapy treatments of people with tracheotomies. An adolescent with cerebral palsy, multiple disability and Complex Communication Needs could voluntarily control and modify the force and duration of his breathing playing a wind instrument with low technological complexity support products prepared by his music therapist. Here it will be explained how the music therapist can elaborate these products to use with similar cases.