Special Needs
Music Together® for kids with special needs?
The Music Together curriculum and method of leading classes is inherently appropriate and accessible for children of all abilities. The classes have a transparent, regular structure supporting lots of fun and silliness and innovation in the details. It is a great blend of comforting sameness and innovative difference, continually pulling parents and children alike just to the enjoyable edge of their musical comfort zone.
Whirligig Music’s classes are led by an early childhood special educator and welcomes all children in every class, but also offers classes especially for the special needs community, very special classes for very special kids at a very special place, where the yellow engine, E6 resides!
Music Together is a valuable activity for a range of aspects of early childhood development:
Music Together helps make music into a fun and very enriching activity for the whole family – to last a lifetime.
Beyond offering a fun class filled with learning and social experiences for kids and parents together, we aim to send home a lot of valuable skills to be used the rest of the week – and for many weeks to come. Firstly, families take home the gift of music: the program fosters and reinforces musicality in both parents and children. It teaches a beautiful selection of songs to sing, experiment and play with. You will learn a wealth of new, fun musical ways for parents and children to spend quality time together, supporting parent-child bonding, and offering an invigorating alternative to the passive spoon-feeding media culture we all live in. The skills and activities modeled during classes can also be very valuable, versatile teaching tools. Music is a wonderful, clear way of communicating, a powerful carrier of learning – with or without language. You will find that you can use music to turn a difficult situation into a bearable situation, or better yet: a time filled with harmony, learning and fun.
When a child has to transition from a preferred activity, has to be patient or in a moment of physical or emotional distress, these are moment when a song, chant or hum or a little dance can make all the difference in the world. Music can help with self-regulation, calming, expressing and processing emotions or information – and help find the energy and the smile that he or she needs.
Music Together is FUN, and it could well be just what you and your child need!
