Music therapy: grounding tips for kids
Children in New Hampshire recently came back to school from a week of spring vacation. While vacations can be a great time to relax and...
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Mar 17, 2018
Music therapy: priming and timing motor responses
The power of entrainment is something we tap into daily when working with individuals with motor and speech challenges. Entrainment is "a...
Feb 27, 2018
Music therapy: NY Times article music and the brain
"the M.I.T. team demonstrated that the speech and music circuits are in different parts of the brain’s sprawling auditory cortex, where...
Feb 13, 2018
Music therapy: The use of sign language to enhance learning, comprehension, motor skills and express
Using sign language engages the children and gives them another or pathway, for a message to be interpreted in the brain. Sign language...
Jan 31, 2018
Music therapy: A multi-sensory learning approach
A multisensory approach enhances learning by engaging more of the brain. Learning that involves multiple senses offers many avenues for a...
Jan 25, 2018
Music therapy: Drumming in the classroom
Drumming in the classroom... We love drumming in the classroom! Drumming is a wonderful tool for developing bilateral coordination, gross...
Jan 13, 2018
Music therapy: using rhythm and melody to enhance learning
Teaching academics using rhythm and melody helps children comprehend and retain information. The different elements of music lights up...
Jan 11, 2018
Music therapy: developing skills with rhythm sticks
In small group and 1:1 settings, small percussion instruments are a fun way of targeting multiple goals in one activity. Rhythm sticks...
Jan 9, 2018
Music therapy: a wagon of tools for growth, development and learning
Rhythm sticks: bilateral coordination, following directions, impulse control, gross motor imitation Sensory cushion: sensory input, core...
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