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Holiday Activities

by Linda | Dec 13, 2015 | Activities, Autism, Blog, Chanuka, Christmas, Developmental Disabilities, hanukka, Holidays, Impulse Control, Instrument Songs, Intervention ideas, Kwanzaa, Motor skills, Movement, Multi-needs, social skills

December is full of holidays that we can build music therapy interventions around. Since I mainly work in school settings, I design activities using secular songs and cultural aspects associated with each holiday. This is also important because it doesn’t...

Fun with Tambourines

by Linda | Oct 24, 2014 | Attention, Autism, Blog, Following Directions, Impulse Control, Instruments, Intervention ideas, Motor skills, Movement, Multi-needs, social skills

Tambourines are great instruments because they give instant feedback and are easy to use. This Fall, I taped different pictures of items we see during the season to the front of each tambourine. I used a fantastic new tape I found at our local teacher’s store,...

Make Your Own Egg Shakers

by Linda | Apr 18, 2014 | Activities, Blog, Creativity, Following Directions, Impulse Control, Intervention ideas, Motor skills, self-esteem, sequencing

Looking for a project to do this weekend with your children or next week when plastic eggs will be on sale? Easter is a great time to stock up on fillable plastic eggs and make home-made egg shakers! This is a great activity that works on fine motor skills, following...

Fun with the Lollipop Drum!

by Linda | Sep 26, 2013 | Attention, Blog, Instruments, Intervention ideas, Motor skills

In this session, one of the students had requested drums and I just so happened to have the ever popular, lollipop drums, with me today. In this video, Sarah is working on motor and attending skills – sustaining play and stopping when cued. As the song...

Instrument of the Day – The Qchord

by Linda | Sep 23, 2013 | Activities, Autism, Blog, Impulse Control, Instruments, Intervention ideas, Motor skills, Turn Taking

The Qchord is a fun and motivating instrument. It is easy to use and can be adapted to all ability levels. This past week we were using it in our groups to work on turn taking and fine motor skills. Waiting for a turn is especially difficult with a...

First Week of School

by Linda | Aug 31, 2013 | Autism, Blog, Impulse Control, Instrument Songs, Intervention ideas, Multi-needs, social skills, Turn Taking

The first week of school has come to a close and we are off to a great start in music therapy! Many of my students are in new schools or have new classmates; therefore, it was important to encourage social interactions. In order to learn each other’s names and...