Understanding and identifying emotions is an important skill in developing emotional well-being, so we wanted to share some songs you can use in everyday life to help your children recognize and embrace emotions. This post will identify ways to explore the emotion “Sad”. Feelin’ Sad and Blue by Storybots Teaching kids about sadness helps..
Teaching kids about emotions starts with helping them recognize what different feelings feel like—and what better way to explore happiness than through music? Songs can be an engaging, joyful way for children to connect with their emotions, giving them the tools to identify and express when they’re feeling good. In this post, we’ll highlight three..
Music is more than just entertainment—it’s a powerful tool for emotional growth. For children, understanding their feelings and learning how to express them can be challenging, but music offers a fun, engaging way to build that self-awareness. From recognizing how different songs make them feel to using music as an outlet for big emotions, there..
It can be really difficult to find a funding source, such as a grant, to use for music therapy. While a quick Google search may bring up some hopeful leads, as you dig in you quickly find that many sources are strictly regional or are grants that expired years ago. Music therapy can be a..
As part of our ‘Using Music in Your Home’ series, here are some ways to incorporate playing instruments in your home or classroom to support early childhood learners. Kids LOVE creating sounds and exploring! Music is a universal language that transcends boundaries and below are some easy ways you can give your kids some tools..
As part of our ‘Using Music in Your Home’ series, we’ve compiled several lists of the most popular songs for those early childhood learners in your home or classroom. Singing is probably the most natural way to interact musically with your child. Just think of the common practice of singing lullabies when putting a baby..
In our music therapy practice, many of the private clients we work with have an Autism diagnosis. In recent years, we have begun to explore ways of reaching these kids beyond our own walls, and have collaborated with ABA programs. ABA, or Applied Behavioral Analysis, is one of the most widely recognized evidence-based practices for..
For many decades, music has been an important part of daily care for children with speech impediments and hearing-impaired children. There have been a lot of studies that examine the role of music in people’s general health as well as an effective intervention when it comes to speech and language problems. It only makes sense..
Sometimes having the right tools makes all the difference in getting where you want to go. This is especially true with music therapy. We have umbrella trees that need to be trimmed down to little stumps every fall. Currently, the project doesn’t take too long and we’re usually able to bust it out in one..
Death is hard to process, and grief is hard to communicate. For an individual with special needs the challenges of grief are different, and music can play a significant role in working through those challenges head on. As I arrived at the Day Program for Adults with Special Needs this week, a lot of the..