Maria's Blog » Musical Talent http://doremeandmaria.com/blog Having Fun Teaching Music To Kids Ages 3-7 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:37:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Autism and music http://doremeandmaria.com/blog/272/autism-and-music/ http://doremeandmaria.com/blog/272/autism-and-music/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:13:15 +0000 Maria http://doremeandmaria.com/blog/?p=272 Last year I taught music to a close to non verbal boy with autism named Stephen. We played a game in the class called Jingle at the Window. It involved the children sitting in a circle passing a tambourine from one child to the next. Each child held the tambourine just long enough to play 3 beats on it in time to the music. Not only did Stephen take the tambourine, play his 3 beats and pass it on to the next child in time to the music, he judged where the tambourine would be in a particular part of the circle, ran to a point just beyond that, and succeeded in getting himself another turn out of the deal; very forward thinking I thought. He is about 7 years old now and has gone on to play the drums. It is clear that he has great musical talent which is nurtured by his family.

Maria

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