Chua Juang Sheng – Merlion Paediatric

Chua Juang Sheng

Music Based Educational Therapist

Mr Chua has obtained both his Master and Bachelor of Music from Northern Arizona University after being awarded a Diploma in Music from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA). He is also both a registered special needs educational therapist and a credentialed dialogic-diagnostic arts therapist with the International Association of Counselors and Therapists (IACT) based in the USA.

Mr Chua has more than 45 years of extensive experience as a piano instructor for young children to senior citizens. He held the role as a Music Educator in the area of piano, composition, theory paper as well as their performance playing for GCE ‘O Level’ Music Elective Programme as he conducts all his programmes in both highly enjoyable and effective manner. 

Since 2003, he has been providing individualised music based educational therapy to children with special education needs such as ASD, ADHD and social anxiety disorder etc. His individualised music based educational therapy programmes have help these children to enhance their neural connectivity and maximise their growth potential.  He understands that music can serve as a non-verbal means of communication while helping those with limited verbal abilities to express themselves.  Taking part in group music based therapy programme also enhance social interaction and cooperation, which help these children with special education needs to regulate their emotions, attention span, confidence building and manage their behaviors.

Mr Chua also coaches churches’ worshipping team by arranging the songs for the churches’ musicians to play.

Professional & Academic Publications

  • Chua, J. S., Xie, G. H., & Tan, M. K. (2024; In press). Harmony in healing: Empowering students with special needs through music-based educational therapy. London, UK: Lambert Academic
  • Chua, J. S. (2024; under review). Why we need music-based educational therapy? The Asian Educational Therapist, 1(2).
  • Chua, J. S., & Xie, G. H. (2023). What adults can learn about young children’s scribbles. Early Years Research, 3(1), 16-19.
  • Chua, J. S., & Xie, G. H. (2022). Young children’s androgynous human figure drawings (cephalopods): The four perspectives on androgyny – sociological, psychological, iconographic and theological. Early Years Research, 2(2), 28-35.
  • Chia, K. H., & Chua, J. S. (2021, Fall). The application of wuxing model in counseling. Unlimited Human! 4-6.
  • Xie, G. H., & Chua, J. S. (2020). King David as an optimally developed person in the sense of helplessness and hopelessness. World Wide Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development, 6(6), 38-43.