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NMT & Attention/Processing Speed: How to Implement MEFT

This video aims to demonstrate how the neurologic music therapy technique Musical Executive Function Training (MEFT) can be used to improve cognitive goals with patients/clients with attention and processing speed deficits. These are often the result of a traumatic brain injury, stroke, or other reasons, and often are correlated with other executive functioning skills such as organizing and planning. The usage of MEFT is an alternative way to work on attention and processing speed rather than just MACT (Musical Attention Control Training). Playing musical instruments in an executive functioning task helps work on 1) multiple forms of attention to sustain through the length of a song and yet maintain selective attention to focus on their part, while 2) working on their processing speed to read the adapted sheet music and play the song in time. Related fields who work with patients/clients with attention & processing speed deficits can use these factors to help in providing treatment to their patients using music or related mediums for therapy. Musical factors that can be altered to change the difficulty in a MEFT activity include the number of instruments, the spacing of when instruments are played (sounds versus silence), and the timing of the activity. The number of instruments can provide a range of difficulty of the attention task, and the length of the song can challenge the span of time and attention for the task. The spacing between when to play challenges a higher level of attention and impulse control. If extra cueing is needed, an additional staff member like an OT can provide gestural/visual cues as well as verbal cues to aid in attention and sequencing.