Making Music with the Young Child with Special Needs: A Guide for Parents

By Elaine Streeter

Creating music is something that all children find stimulating and exciting. This new and updated edition of the well-established Making Music with the Young Child with Special Needs demonstrates how music can be used to encourage a child's development and provides practical help and guidance for parents and carers of all musical abilities, even beginners. The author also explains how musical activities can help to stimulate skills in other areas such as language and communication. The second part of the book details thirteen musical activities, with ideas for variations and further work.

In this new edition of her well-established book, Elaine Streeter helps parents and carers to learn not only how they can add to a child's fun, but also how they can engage a child in interactive communication at a level the child can make sense of - one of the most rewarding things anyone can do.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853029602
• ISBN13: 9781853029608
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

You don't have to be a musician ...

Music and song can be great ways to engage children with special needs and start to build vital communication skills like listening and turn-taking. But too often, parents and teachers feel that they aren't "qualified" to use these tools unless they're professional music therapists or at least able to play an instrument fluently.This charming, easy-to-read book aims to enable anyone to start making music with a child with special needs.And I have no ability to read music, can't play an instrument to save my life, and have one of the world's worst singing voices - so when I say "anyone", I mean it!