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Music is a universal language. In my expertise in working with children who have Autism Spectrum Disorder, most of them respond quite nicely to music. In my classroom, we use music all day long. As a former music therapy main, I learned a quantity of techniques to incorporate music into my classroom in a therapeutic manner.
There are a quantity of ways I use music to teach kids. It has been my observation that all young children, but especially those with particular wants, understand and benefit from having music incorporated into pretty much every part of their day.
The following are some of the methods in which I do so.
1. Sing the Every day Schedule
As in most classrooms for youngsters with autism and other disabilities, I have a daily schedule posted with words and photos. 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 "Very first there is breakfast, then there's bathroom, morning function and check-in, then there is recess, juice time, group time, and there is trampoline if you are on green." And so forth. If I miss a day, one of my students will say "Ms. Whiting, I want you so sing to us."
2. Exercise to music
We exercise in my classroom numerous times per day. I try to make certain the kids get an hour of physical exercise per day, including their two fifteen minute recesses, but oftentimes they get even more.
Here are some of my preferred CD's and DVD's for our exercise time:
• Greg and Steve's CD - "Youngsters in Action"
• "Moove n Groove Kids" DVD
3. 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 fantastic time to use music to practice eye get in touch with, wait time and social interaction.
4. Daily Sign-in
Due to the fact I teach younger children, they normally don't know their names in print at the beginning of the year. A especially straight forward sign-in game I use is with plain paper plates. I put every single child's name on a paper plate. The next factor I do is put 1 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 seriously superb.
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 every day sign-in chart and our every day lunch selection board.
Our everyday sign-in is distinct every single day. It is a "Question of the day" with two columns that I have created 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 preferred fits for him.
5. Use music for teaching all simple abilities.
I discovered a new series of DVD's this year called "Super Simple Songs." They had been developed by the staff of the Knock Knock English School in Japan. They had been having a challenging time finding effortless songs that were enjoyable for their Japanese students who were understanding English, so they developed their own.
Super Straight forward Songs can be used independently but I prefer to make or download from the site some sort of visual with each and every song I use. Children with autism are extremely visual and need to have photos as much as feasible.
I bought the series of three CDs and have applied them each day due to the fact. 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, some thing children have a pretty challenging time understanding. There is a song referred to as "Do you like Broccoli Ice Cream?" that teaches humor and sarcasm.
Music helps student with autism find out abilities but also helps them generalize abilities into other places 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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