Archive for Music Awareness

Essie Jain Guest Post

Essie Jain Guest Post

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September 12, 2011  |  Music Awareness  |  Comments Off

Essie is an English singer based in New York I was very lucky to listen to Essie Jain's new cd Light of Morning. It is a self penned album of lullabies it is greatas Essie has a magical quality to her voice that soothes and calms even the most fractious children - speaking from personal experience.Essie

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Jennifer Richman Guest Post

Jennifer Richman Guest Post

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August 15, 2011  |  Music Awareness  |  Comments Off

For me music has always played a very important part of my life, whether its playing it or listening to it. Since having my children I have found that even when there has been times that they were unable to communicate they respond to music. Perkie who is 6 and autistic works a lot around music at his special school

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Skoog

Skoog

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August 1, 2011  |  Music Awareness  |  Comments Off

I had the great opportunity to test a Skoog this is great it just looks like a foam cube but actually its a very useful musical instrument designed for people with special needs in mind. This cube can become any musical instrument with its very clever use of software. Its very simple to use just download the software plug the

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Music For Special Needs

Music For Special Needs

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April 28, 2011  |  Music Awareness  |  Comments Off

This is a post from Trabasack Its shows a new innovative way for children to be able to play a musical instrument I first found about about Skoog through the One Switch blog, which helps people with learning disabilities enjoy creative ideas through art, music and games. Skoog is a soft cube that you can play

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Music Awareness

Music Awareness

April 25, 2011  |  Music Awareness  |  5 Comments

We all know that #autism is full of it own little quirks but did you know some of the children cannot even communicate to the people around them . All methods have been tried and tested from symbols, PEC's etc. Did you know one of the most popular methods to communicate with autistic children is music. Its true when no

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