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11/06/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 11/06/2024 06:37

Stewarts Soundbites: Music therapy and expert quantum reports

Music therapy is increasingly recognised as a useful potential tool to work alongside physical and other forms of therapy for patients with serious injuries. Claimants or defendants in an injury litigation may wish to commission expert witness reports following music and creative arts therapies as part of calculating quantum.

Partner Chris Smith will speak to music therapist Kate Cropper in this latest edition of Soundbites, in what promises to be an insightful discussion around this topic. They will consider questions including:

  • What is neurologic music therapy?
  • Why would you use a music therapist as part of a therapy team?
  • How have perceptions around music therapy changed over time?
  • How is music therapy incorporated into rehabilitation and a legal claim?

We hope you can join us.

Date: Wednesday 13 November

Time: 13:00 - 13:15

Speaker bio[Link]

Kate Cropper is a qualified music therapist with 20 years of experience, and is Head of Referrals and the Expert Witness Service at Chroma Therapies. She is a clinician, commissioner and therapy manager specialising in complex trauma, brain injury and rehabilitation and has worked in settings including special needs schools, the NHS, rehabilitation units and in the community. Kate has also worked extensively within the field of dementia and in PMLD, learning difficulty and visual impairment.

Chroma's expert witness service provides expert assessment and reports to advise on outcomes of music and neurologic music therapy and attached quantum within civil litigation and education. Chroma is the UK's only national provider of the creative arts therapies.

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