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How to Write Musical Social Stories
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This music therapy video illustrates the following:
- By adding music to social stories, you can make them more engaging for children with special needs
- You can also chant a non-musical social story to give it a strong rhythmic feel that will make the story more engaging
- May is Williams syndrome awareness month and to learn more, go to www.wschanginglives.org
- You can build social stories with pictures, video, audio and text by using the free app called Story Creator by Alligator Apps
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Friday, 03 May 2013
Hello Mary Rose, thank you so much for your comment! You make a great point. I appreciate it.
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Friday, 03 May 2013
This is great. I was just recently looking for an app to write stories with, and was unsuccessful. Thanks for sharing!
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Friday, 03 May 2013
Hi Kim, I am so glad that you found this helpful! I had to go through a couple of apps before I found this one. I love how you can have the words highlighted as you sing them! You can also share social stories with a client's iPad as long as they have the app too.
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Saturday, 04 May 2013
I just wrote about Musical Social Stories in two upcoming chapters - describing its applications for ADHD and autism.
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Monday, 06 May 2013
Looking forward to reading them,
Karen Goodman, Professor, Music Therapy, Montclair State University. -
Monday, 06 May 2013
Excellent!
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Saturday, 04 May 2013
such a wonderful idea!!i am going to use it with teenagers with autism as well as with in an elementary school pupils with learning disabilities.Thank you.
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Monday, 06 May 2013
Hi Anna, you are very welcome! I am so happy to be able to share these ideas with my colleagues. Thank you for the comment!
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Saturday, 04 May 2013
Its so amazing! Thank you for sharing.
I saw another of your videos where you used a YES/ NO add. Could you tell me where you have got that from? It could be great for the children with severe ASD that I work with.
Thank you very much. I am so grateful to have found you blog, -
Monday, 06 May 2013
Hi Julie, thank you for the comment and question! I am so glad that you found me too.
The Yes/No app is called AnswersHD. It is $3.99 and you can customize the buttons for choice making, requesting, etc. Most of the children that I work with have this on their iPads. It has become very popular! Thanks again for the comment and question. -
Saturday, 04 May 2013
I work with middle school students with high functioning autism. Musical social stories looks so promising!
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Monday, 06 May 2013
Hi Sharon, thank you for the comment. One of the things I love about these musical social stories is that it is easy to make them age appropriate. This app even lets you shoot video and directly insert it into the page of the social story you are working on. How cool is that?
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Friday, 05 July 2013
Hi Ryan,
I love your work and am a huge fan of social stories. I am the Director of a program for young adults with special needs (prismga.org) and have found it very difficult to find material geared for ages 18+. Many of our guys (& girls!) still benefit from the use of social stories and of course love music, but finding age appropriate material is rare. This is a niche for someone who wants to tackle it! In the meantime, we continue to customize material whenever we can. -
Monday, 08 July 2013
Hi Marilynn, thank you so much for your comment! I appreciate hearing your insight into the need for more age appropriate material for ages 18 and up. I have also seen a general lack of services and therapy groups for this age range. I hope to fill some of that void in the near future. Thanks again!
Thank you Ryan. This is Fantastic, because not all children are able to sit through a reading of a therapeutic story, but music makes all that much more interesting for the child with a short attention span.