Developing Early Verbal Skills Through Music: Using Rhythm, Movement and Song With Children and Young People With Additional or Complex Needs (EPUB)
Book Description
By Tracy Jeffery
This book explores the connection between music and speech, and how musical activities can support the mechanisms and processes needed for speech. It offers practical guidance on how to address the physiological, neurological, and learning differences that children face when trying to understand speech. This guide includes information about conditions such as hypermobility, autism spectrum disorders, Down Syndrome, auditory processing differences, and motor timing difficulties. It provides evidence-based and easy-to-follow activities, including breathing exercises with whistles, using drums to support speech sounds, and using songs to enhance speech.
Product Details
- Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub (May 25, 2023)
- Language: English
- Format: eBook Digital
- Pages: 272
- ISBN-10: 1787758834
- ISBN-13: 978-1787758834