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Music Therapy at Home: Best Instruments and Activities for Children with Special Needs
Therapies > Music

Music Therapy at Home: Best Instruments and Activities for Children with Special Needs

By Jack Foster
...on their own. The instruments your therapist uses,...working on and which instruments support those goals....Look for in Home Instruments. When a board-certified...therapist recommends an instrument for home practice,...hands to create sound. For a child who...disguised as play. The instrument is selected because...now, not because it sounds nice. That's the...
Special Needs App of the Day: My First Classical Music App
Assistive Tech > Apps

Special Needs App of the Day: My First Classical Music App

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...classical music. The app introduces what the instruments sound like, who writes music, and where you hear...music. The app introduces what the instruments sound like, who writes music, and where you hear music....different pieces are featured in the app, and every instrument of the orchestra is explained. The lively characters...
Special Needs App of the Day: Bloom
Assistive Tech > Apps

Special Needs App of the Day: Bloom

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...Brian Eno and software designer Peter Chilvers, Bloom is in some ways an instrument and composing tool and in other ways a palette for art. Each piece is different...Eno is at the forefront of ambient music, a genre focused on timbres and sounds to create mood...
Special Needs App of the Day: PianoBall
Assistive Tech > Apps

Special Needs App of the Day: PianoBall

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...bright hues, and four balls that rotate. The instrument ball allows your children to choose the instrument...instrument ball allows your children to choose the instrument sound they hear — choose from the piano, xylophone,...allows your children to choose the instrument sound they hear — choose from the piano, xylophone,...
Special Needs App of the Day: ThumbJam
Assistive Tech > Apps

Special Needs App of the Day: ThumbJam

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...bars that when tapped make a sound. You can shake or turn your...ThumbJam uses high-quality instrument samples, meaning you are...an actual recording of an instrument when you tap a key. The app...The app includes several instruments, even some you might not...Electric Bass String instruments like Cello, Viola, Violin,...
Easy Children’s Songs to Learn on Guitar
Lifestyle > Recreation

Easy Children’s Songs to Learn on Guitar

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
Anyone who has taken a guitar lesson or picked up the instrument knows it's not necessarily an easy one to play. Many people have dreams...strings of the guitar are numbers from high to low, so the thinnest, highest sounding string is number 1, and the lowest, thickest string is 6. Now it's...
The Sonic Frontier: A Deep Dive into the Latest Hearing Aid Technology for Special Needs
Assistive Tech > Hearing

The Sonic Frontier: A Deep Dive into the Latest Hearing Aid Technology for Special Needs

By Diana Foster
...advancements are not just confined to improvement in sound quality. There's a whole new world out there,...distinguishing speech in a noisy environment to balancing sounds, the utilization of AI plays an instrumental role...balancing sounds, the utilization of AI plays an instrumental role in effecting an all-round hearing improvement....
Special Needs App of the Day: Mixeroo
Assistive Tech > Apps

Special Needs App of the Day: Mixeroo

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...different ways. They can isolate the different instruments, such as the piano, bells, violin or bongos. There..."Ode to Joy." Each song has a different set of instruments to play with. More than one fader can be moved...one fader can be moved at a time to change the sound of the song. Kids will not only love the music...
Music Therapy for Special Needs Children: What Parents Should Know
Therapies > Music

Music Therapy for Special Needs Children: What Parents Should Know

By Dr. Evelyn Mercer
...around your child's IEP or treatment plan, not around learning to play an instrument for performance. Here's what music therapy is, who provides it, how it...goal. Music lessons teach musical skills: how to read notation, play an instrument, sing in tune. The objective is musical proficiency. Music therapy uses...
Connecting Music Therapy and Autism
Therapies > Music

Connecting Music Therapy and Autism

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...care profession that has been around since the 1940s. Music therapy is the systematic use of music and music-based interventions (such as singing, instrument playing, or movement to music) within a therapeutic relationship to accomplish individualized goals. Music therapy goals are non-musical (such as...
How Play Helps Your Child's Brain, Part 1
Education > Early Intervention

How Play Helps Your Child's Brain, Part 1

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...Brain Because the reptilian brain learns best with rhythm, routine, repetition and ritual, play activities such as nursery rhymes and learning an instrument are perfect examples of helping the brain develop through rhythm. Many children today can't pass a steady beat competency test, which is a fancy...
Activities for Kids: Rhythm and Movement
Education > Early Intervention

Activities for Kids: Rhythm and Movement

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...enhancing movement activities with music is a great way to get kids motivated. Steady pulses encourage a regular gait. Children can clap or play an instrument to the beat to reinforce that rhythm. Rhythms also help establish routines, and...

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