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January 28, 2015 at 6:02 pm
in reply to: How have you used these four music experiences in your practice?
ParticipantI am not yet using music therapy in early childhood (will be soon!!), but I am excited to use what I learned this week to 1) recognize where my clients are developmentally and 2)develop interventions that really will meet them where they are and help them grow to the next level!
Right after I watched these videos, my sister in law sent a video of my 8 month old nephew shaking a bottle of toothpicks. I told her that he was exploring rhythm and pulse and that she would have fun matching his pulse with an instrument and giving him other noise-makers to explore!January 28, 2015 at 5:57 pmParticipant– SINGING
* Awareness: Audible breath, cooing, vocalizing
* Trust: Matching some pitches
* Independence: Singing to themselves
* Control: Following melodic contour
* Responsibility: Recreating whole songs
– PLAYING INSTRUMENTS
* Awareness: Reaching out to explore
* Trust: Brief exploration of pulse
* Independence: Exploration of variety of instruments
* Control: Loves to practice starting and stopping
* Responsibility: Connecting with others through matching steady beat/pulse
– MOVING
* Awareness: Natural and instinctual movement to music
* Trust: More purposeful movement that starts/stops with music
* Independence: Intentional movements with isolated body parts
* Control: Loves to practice imitating movements
* Responsibility: Can learn a sequence of movements
– LISTENING
* Awareness: Prefers familiar voices, very aware of vocal timbre
* Trust: Can be calmed with familiar songs, recognizes melody
* Independence: Actively attending to music and responding to differing intensity levels
* Control: Can be very engaged in listening, chooses to stop and listen
* Responsibility: Listening to others’ music and connecting to others through musicJanuary 21, 2015 at 1:46 pm
in reply to: Discuss with the board the traditional and cultural music in your home community.
ParticipantI am new to my community, so I haven’t quite put my finger on the cultural songs of this area, but in my home state of Virginia, especially in the mountains, there are a lot of people who grew up listening to and playing bluegrass music, and those songs are engrained in their culture and their world, passed down from generation to generation. Most of my work has been with hospice patients, and it was always a great opportunity to experience families making music together, or sharing the experience of remembering their cultural songs.
January 21, 2015 at 1:39 pm
in reply to: Sing and learn some of the songs presented in the video. Share with the board your experiences using these songs.
ParticipantI LOVE these songs! It was so fun to learn and practice these while I was watching the videos, and to pretend that I was leading them with a group! I thought it was really valuable to consider the benefit of using different modes, and never considered the impact of that on the emotional and cognitive development of children. I also love the idea of sharing songs that are just about being musical, or just about loving to sing or be me. I think sometimes with kids we are so focused on giving them something to do to keep them occupied that we don’t always give them a chance to just BE, and learn who they are. I love the idea of giving kids a chance to develop that sense of self within the structure of music.
January 21, 2015 at 1:36 pmParticipantI haven’t done a great deal of work in early childhood, and don’t recall any specific moments, but from the small amount that I have done I can remember pre-school age kids probably in the control phase of musical development, where they would sing with me, matching my tempo, would begin to initiate the songs independently, move around to the music, and they seemed to enjoy imitating and following me musically. I noticed that music was fun for them, and they truly loved the opportunity to play and have fun within the structure of music that was reliable, familiar, and predictable to them. I also have a young nephew who seems like he might be transitioning from the awareness to the trust stage of development, where he is taking everything in and responding to it. He’s making melodic sounds and exploring his voice, and also exploring the sounds that objects around him make.
January 14, 2015 at 12:12 pmParticipantI think that what I will personally bring to early childhood music therapy based programs is a true love of entering the child’s frame of mind, being child-like, and PLAYING! I think it is a unique opportunity that we have to exit the adult world that we are “supposed” to be in, and be child-like, as part of our profession! Playing and having fun with children is the best way for them to learn, and it brings me joy as a human to be a part of that type of learning! The information I received this week is helpful because it will aid me in being sure I am bringing developmentally appropriate interventions to the children that I am working with so that the play that we engage in WILL indeed help them learn!
January 14, 2015 at 12:07 pm
in reply to: What was your most valuable takeaway from this weeks’ content?
ParticipantOther than the general information about early childhood development (which is very valuable), I believe that my most valuable takeaway from the content is information about when red flags might be present in a child’s development, and how to assure parents that what they are experiencing is typical. I have never been a parent myself, but I am sure that it is easy to become very anxious about your child’s development when there is so much information available to us on the internet and in the media. Having a music therapist or other professional to reassure (in a non-judgemental and kind way) the parents or to guide them towards seeking assistance if there might be a slight delay, would be invaluable to those parents. I hope to be that person for parents when I am working with young children and their families.
ParticipantMy name is Jessica Finch Bogacik and I am a music therapist currently in the Columbus, Ohio area. My husband and I just moved here in early November, and I am just getting started with Central Ohio Music Therapy, a private practice in this area. With this company, I am working primarily with older adults, but we are hoping to expand our services to provide Sprouting Melodies classes to our community. In the past, I have had the opportunity to work with a large variety of populations, including children and adults with special needs, medical patients, hospice patients and their families, adults who were hospitalized for psychiatric care, and typically developing children in Head Start programs. I am excited to learn the Sprouting Melodies program so that I can have a more solid foundation of knowledge in the area of child development, and also so that I have a toolbox to bring with me as our company works to expand our services! I’m also really excited to get to bring music experiences to parents and children and to watch the joy that ensues when children have fun opportunities to interact with their caregivers!
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