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It has been wonderful completing this course with all of you! Thank you for sharing your experience, knowledge, and insights.
ParticipantIt has been wonderful completing this course with all of you! Thank you for sharing your experience, knowledge, and insights.
ParticipantIt is so wonderful to read all of the creative and positive ways everyone is using to create successful environments for their clients!
ParticipantIt has been interesting looking at my clients development within this framework. I look forward to continuing to integrate these concepts into my daily practice. I will be identifying where my client is developmentally and finding musical experiences to fit where they are developmentally. I will share this information with colleagues, administrators, and families by providing verbal and written information where needed. I plan on putting together handouts to give to families to help explain where their child is and how we are going to help them grow. I will be developing my contacts with other professionals and administrators to begin to grow my music therapy business, and utilize this training to help support my speech therapy clients.
ParticipantI believe my most important take away from this course is the musical development of the young child. My previous education really focused on school aged children. I did learn about early development during my internship, but I found how the information in this course was organized to be very helpful. It was interesting to look at the information from a new fresh perspective. Providing services with typically developing children is much different then most of the work I have done.
I have also really appreciated the knowledge in how to build and market your business as I have always had clients come to me either by state referrals or word of mouth.
Thank you!!
ParticipantI always think that if a child is having difficulty in one of my sessions it is up to me to change what I am doing. This could be the key I’m playing in, the instrumental rhythm, tone of instrument, tone of voice…. I need to read their verbal and physical cues to provide the safe and welcoming environment they need. Every day is different for everyone. Maybe they didn’t eat breakfast, maybe they didn’t sleep the night before, maybe their stomach or head hurts. It is up to me to ask parents how they are doing and what they need in the moment.
I have also established very clear boundaries for my clients. I love the “one and done” that was mentioned in the training. I typically try to tell the child what they can do first before I say no. Such as “we walk” “gentle hands” “hold tight.” But there are times when safety is an issue and I say “no” or give the firm mom look with a head shake. My clients with special needs often do not pick up on subtle cues so a firm no or a clear positive statement works much better. I have had clients who truly do not understand no or sends them into worse behaviors. I know I must use positive statements on what they can do instead of telling them what they can not do such as “we are sitting” “we are walking” “we are gentle” and use we statements instead of I or you. There have been times that I need to physically redirect or stand between clients. I have caught maracas on the fly and removed them from the environment with a quick clean up song.
I always try to look at an environment before a session to set it up to be as successful as possible. Could the fluorescent lights be a problem? Are the landscapers working today? Is the fan distracting? Some children are very sensitive to smells…. I can not always control all of these things, but I know I need to be aware of them.
ParticipantI am most excited about providing a nonjudgmental community where families feel connected and supported. I love the idea of bringing families together to build friendships, and to help them in their journey of raising their children. I hope to provide a space that relieves their stress and provides ideas to help them through this rewarding yet difficult journey.
ParticipantThank you! I am excited to try these ideas!! I love the idea and sense of ownership and participation this could bring.
ParticipantFive words to describe the music experiences in Family Sprouts: Support, Joyful, Individuality, Cooperation, and Connections.
Plan for songs and music experiences to use in Family Sprouts:
Gathering/Greeting Song
“Come and Join the Circle:” Patting knees, clapping hands, or playing drums
“Come on Let’s Make Some Music” Clap, pat, stamp, etc… Have older children recommend movements. Children can have solos.
Different aged children can move differently.Bonding Songs
“Row It Faster”: Older Children can be sitting up and facing outwards while babies lie on parents’ lap. Also, older children
can stand in the middle holding hands in the beginning and then for the faster part jump up and down on the waves.Songs About Me
“All of This is Me”: accompanied with bells playing open 5th patting different body parts. Warm timbre is used for very
young infants to begin to recognize their mother. Older children helps to develop sense of self and others.Instrument Song
” I Like This Song” Work on pitch matching. Use multiple types of instruments such as drums, maracas, and finger cymbals.
Older children can have opportunity for solos.Movement Song
“I Can Move Around” with maracas. Change lyrics to reflect movement of children. Can help parents adjust movement of
children based on age ie. infant vs toddler. Macro beat vs. microbeat. Add musical surprises by stopping music after
each ‘la’ phrase and wait for all children to stop and look before continuing.Goodbye Song
“It’s Time to Sing Goodbye”
“Music Time is Over”ParticipantThe programs I can offer differ in several ways. As a music therapist, I am trained to know how to identify music that will illicit different responses and how to identify these responses. I also have the training and experience on how to evaluate children on where they are developmentally. These classes offer a developmental approach to encourage the acquisition of developmental milestones. I am trained to evaluate developmental skills to identify the needs of each child.
ParticipantI have run into many problems when trying to run multi age groups. It is difficult to meet the needs of each age group. It is easy to make it too overwhelming for the youngest or not stimulating enough for the oldest. I also ran into the problem of the adults holding conversations during the group. This was during a home preschooling group I belonged to. We took turns teaching so the lessons were free. We have to set up guidelines and give reminders for parents to hold conversations after the lessons. Overall, I found these groups to be the most challenging to run.
ParticipantFive words to describe the music experiences in Sprouting Melodies 3: Active, Emotions, Deliberate, Intentional, Push and Pull</p>
<p>A plan for songs and music experiences for Sprouting Melodies 3:</p>
<p>Gathering/Greeting Song<br />
“Gather Round”: Patting on hands/knees/feet, can move around the room working on imitation, work on building connections</p>
<p>Bonding Song<br />
“My Brand New Friend” can share a rope while jumping can switch to jumping with a different friend. </p>
<p>Songs About Me<br />
“You Play a Little” using a drum to take turns playing/reciprocal play, Work on pitch matching</p>
<p>Movement Song<br />
“Will You Come?” Make a music parade: children can take turns being a leader. Can also be a friendship game. Can add one child at a time having the next child find a friends to ask to join the parade. Therapist will use large frame drum and mallet to create strong steady marching beat.</p>
<p>Reading a Book<br />
Eric Carlisle: From Head to Toe<br />
Work on Book Handling, Page Turning, and pointing to the print while reading<br />
Good to work on body part identification on self and others creating sense of self and sense of others<br />
Goodbye Song
Thank You Very Much: Have children take turns shaking your hand and the hands of other children. (This might have to be
air high fives for now during the pandemic).ParticipantUse 5 words to describe the music experiences in Sprouting Melodies 2: Playful, Exploration, Spontaneous, Energy, and Surprize
Five sentences you can use when speaking with parents about musical responses of children in SM 2:
1. “It’s O.K. they are moving. We don’t want to make them stop.”
2. “Play is the work of children.”
3. “Yes! They are singing it at home!”
4. “They are watching here and then practicing it at home!”
5. “They will do it here when they are ready.”Create a plan for songs and music experiences to use in a Sprouting Melodies 2 session: This would be a rough outline of the session due to the needs of the group on that particular day.
1. Gathering/Greeting Songs
I would start with a gathering song such as Hey! Hey! Come and Play! E.K. Schwartz until most of the adults and children
are gathered together and have been greeted.2. Bonding Songs
Wiggly Jiggly Car E.K. Schwartz3. Songs About Me
Can You See Me? E.K. Schwartz with therapist playing open fifth on xylophone
-Focusing on surprize, concept of me, contour of melody, and possibly call and response4. Instrument Songs
All Night! All Day! Adapted by E.K. Schwartz with a large gathering drum for those children wanting to play together and
large frame drums for those not ready for that closeness.If another instrument song is needed: In My Little Hand by E. K. Schwartz with maracas
5. Movement Songs
March with My Baby with therapist playing large frame drum with mallet while marching in a large children with parents
holding children6. Goodbye
Thank You Very Much by E.K. Schwartz followed with Music Time is Over by E.K. Schwartz to reinforce that music time is
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