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Easy and Fun Ways You Can Use Music to Teach Speech Skills
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This video shows you how to use music and "Sing and Read" books to practice speech skills as part of a Down syndrome treatment program. Please sign up for my newsletter full of great musical special education resources at https://www.therhythmtree.com/user-registration
This music therapy video illustrates the following...
- Sing and Read books make it easy for the non-musician to use music to help a child reach their therapeutic goals (Comprehensive
list of Sing and Read Books: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/singable-books - Using slower speech and exaggerated articulation can help a child process speech better and learn how words are articulated
- Using visual phonetics helps a child understand how to articulate specific sounds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De5nVclM4Y8)
- Using dramatic voices can draw in a child's attention and make therapeutic work fun and motivating
- Using an anticipatory breath combined with wait time is an effective way to let a child know that they are expected to respond
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Comments
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Wednesday, 26 September 2012
This is superb! Very informative with clever and easy to use techniques.
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Tuesday, 18 February 2014
She is just cute as she can be!! I love using books in my MT sessions!! I've also had a lot of success writing melodies to go with books that have rhyming verses.... Thanks for sharing!
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Monday, 24 February 2014
Hey Liz, thanks for the comment! She is super cute, huh?
This is superb! Very informative with clever and easy to use techniques.