#1 If you are a musician and also have a strong desire to help people, music therapy as a career may be perfect for you. Personally, I was torn between becoming a music teacher or a special education teacher. I vividly remember learning about music […]
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Can You Guess My Goal for 2015?
My goal for 2015? You’ll never guess it. It’s simply to read! Ah, but to clarify, my specific goal is to read my ever growing pile of books and journal articles that are NOT on a screen. And I’m going to use this cute picture […]
Mirror Neurons at Work
As my final post for you in 2014, I offer a story… It was a wintery Friday morning in Wisconsin. I was teaching a “Learning Through Song” class for kids with special needs and their parents. Through a strange set of circumstances, I only had […]
What Rhymes with Santa?
What rhymes with Santa? Well, except for a fruit-flavored carbonated beverage, there aren’t any real words that clearly rhyme with Santa. (If you think of one, please leave a comment below!) The important thing to learn from this post is that rhyming words DO NOT […]
Rhythm, Rhyme & Repetition – Part 2 of 2
As promised in my previous post, it’s time to delve further into the topic of rhyming. We learned last time that the onset is the first sound in a one syllable word and all that follows it is a rime. Nope, that’s not a typo. […]
Rhythm, Rhyme & Repetition – Part 1 of 2
The majority of kids in early childhood pick up the skill of rhyming through osmosis. After frequent exposure to nursery rhymes, books, and singing, they spontaneously start generating rhyming words themselves. These frequently appear as “nonsense words” as they play with language. It might sound […]
Free Rhyming Song for You
Here’s a fun and slightly spooky rhyming song that can be used as a stand alone intervention to teach rhyme recognition. It also serves as an entertaining review of body part identification for kids that might need it. By using a physical prop like those […]
