Music Therapy

Helping Hands Initiative
Julianna Farella, President
10a Pratt Court
Staten Island ,NY 10312
(718)356-4737
HelpingHandsInitiative.org
Helping Hands Initiative takes an active role in the local community, providing advocacy, medical insurance and physical exam assistance, referral and advisory services, housing options, interview and financial aid advice, employment assistance, workshops, junior advisory/business leadership program and a music therapy/lessons program.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• music
• therapy
• autism
• special
• needs
• DrMDK

[Fusakiri]

well of course i mean we all have different experiences, and in mine of course i have learned that a guitar works almost to well, drums i have never tried but i think i might

[bmoore326]

Great interview, but I don't agree with the generalization that autistic kids lean towards a piano more than drums, when I in my studies have found the opposite.

[annakolod]

great videos drmdk they are really interesting

[ABAisSCIENCE]

The sounds or pattern exposed to dictates what language is spoken. No child in America learns to speak in Chinese unless their parents are immigrants.

Exposure / the model dictates what is conditioned.

To a child w/ an extreme focus the social reinforcers might be irrelevant, but the novel sound patterns of a song might make the expressive sounds of speech higher in reinforcement value.

[ABAisSCIENCE]

A typ. child if spoken to a great deal at 8 mo. can say, "Read me this."

The child is unaware of the # of words or what each sound represents. Rather they know that they will be picked up & a story will be given by the caregiver.

A child w/ autism can like the rythmn of a song & memorize it due to that being noticed.

Value in the info., but the learning is still best with understanding how learning takes place.

[starrala]

Great Videos

DrMDK