everyone welcome back to the rhythm tree
my name is Ryan John a board certified music therapist
and I'm gonna give me some more great tips on how to use music to help
children with special needs today
the topic today how to use simple percussive instruments
to you bond with children with special needs and connect with them
and work on eye contact and communication
I'm gonna teach you some easy great ways to do that at the very end share a video
clip me working with the child with autism that
illustrates these techniques all right before we jump into some fun instruments
and ideas
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so let's jump into it instruments my favorite ones
are little moraccas kid size maracas colorful little ones
awesome colorful shakers rhythm sticks
simple percussive rhythm sticks and
little tambourines. I like the ones without the heads you can stick your hand through
so let's talk about some other things you can do. In this video coming up
you'll see that
I hold on to this part of the tambourine and have
my client hold onto this part and we play
that way together so that's a great way to face a child
and you can do like a little row, row, row,, your boat or you could sing a little song with them
and then suddenly stop and have them communicate they want more so that's a
nice way to work on some speech communication goals
yeah that's why I love these little tambourines
yes same things were shakers. If a child is unable to hold on to it or they tend to drop
them on the floor
you can hold on to it and they can put their hands on it as you sit face to face
and again do a little rocking a little singing in this video clip I just used the melody
skip to my Lou
and I just change the words up a little bit so I
prompt my client to work on saying yes so much great fun stuff you can do with
instruments
oh by the way these are all the same instruments I including my DVD and Music
kit
you can check that out on my store page if you're interested and I hope you enjoy
this clip if you do
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I really appreciate it. Thanks so much I'm
I say yes
yes yes
should we do some more yes
Let's play those shakers today
Let's all play today
I say yes
yes is yes
yes yes I say yes
I say yes
yes yes me
twinkle twinkle little star
how I wonder what you are
up above the world so high
like a diamond in the sky
Got to look
yes
Twink twinkle Grab on!
little star how I wonder what you are up above the world so high
twinkle twinkle little star
how i wonder what you are
how i wonder what you are and stop
them