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Music is a universal language. In my encounter in working with children who have Autism Spectrum Disorder, most of them respond highly well to music. In my classroom, we use music all day long. As a former music therapy significant, I learned a quantity of techniques to incorporate music into my classroom in a therapeutic manner.
There are a number of approaches I use music to teach youngsters. It has been my observation that all kids, but particularly those with special requirements, learn and benefit from having music incorporated into practically each component of their day.
The following are some of the ways in which I do so.
1. Sing the Everyday Schedule
As in most classrooms for kids with autism and other disabilities, I have a every day schedule posted with words and pictures. Most teachers use Boardmarker. Mine are schedule cards I got from ABCTeach.com. I point to the schedule and literally sing the words to the tune of "Oh My Darling Clementine." I sing "Initial there's breakfast, then there's bathroom, morning work and check-in, then there's recess, juice time, group time, and there's trampoline if you are on green." And so forth. If I miss a day, one of my students will say "Ms. Whiting, I need to have you so sing to us."
2. Exercise to music
We exercise in my classroom numerous times per day. I try to make positive the youngsters get an hour of physical exercise per day, which includes their two fifteen minute recesses, but oftentimes they get a great deal more.
Here are some of my preferred CD's and DVD's for our exercise time:
• Greg and Steve's CD - "Children in Action"
• "Moove n Groove Kids" DVD
three. Calendar Time
We sing songs at Calendar time for the days of the week and the months of the year. Circle time is a especially good time to use music to practice eye contact, wait time and social interaction.
4. Every day Sign-in
Due to the fact I teach younger youngsters, they in most cases don't know their names in print at the beginning of the year. A particularly rather simple sign-in game I use is with plain paper plates. I put every child's name on a paper plate. The next thing I do is put one of the paper plates on the floor and sing to the tune of "If You are happy and you know it"
"If your name is on the plate, stand up.
If your name is on the plate, stand up.
If you name is one the plate, then you are performing truly outstanding.
If you name is on the plate stand up."
The child stands up, picks up the plate and gives it to me. He then chooses his name from the magnetic white board and adds it to our daily sign-in chart and our everyday lunch selection board.
Our every day sign-in is numerous each and every day. It is a "Question of the day" with two columns that I have produced up such as:
What kind of ice cream to you like? Chocolate or Vanilla
What color do you like least? Red or Blue
The child has to put his name under the column that top fits for him.
five. Use music for teaching all standard skills.
I discovered a new series of DVD's this year called "Super Hassle-free Songs." They had been developed by the staff of the Knock Knock English School in Japan. They had been having a tough time discovering effortless songs that had been fun for their Japanese students who had been learning English, so they developed their own.
Super Basic Songs can be utilised independently but I prefer to make or download from the web site some type of visual with every song I use. Youngsters with autism are incredibly visual and want photos as a great deal as feasible.
I bought the series of 3 CDs and have used them every single day given that. I use songs to teach simple academic abilities such as numbers, letters, shapes and colors. I also use them to teach social abilities, emotions, wait time, and even humor, something youngsters have a very challenging time understanding. There is a song called "Do you like Broccoli Ice Cream?" that teaches humor and sarcasm.
Music assists student with autism learn abilities but also helps them generalize abilities into other locations of their life. We use music wherever we go. I began 20 years ago with a record player in my classroom and how I'm employing a CD player, an IPod and my Smartphone.
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