We bring you some important points seen in the last WEBINAR on Music Therapy techniques to stimulate Productive Language . These techniques are very powerful since they mobilize our little ones towards language and communication.

It is necessary to understand the importance of training when we face a new challenge: a boy or girl with special needs, abilities and difficulties. The learning process of any aspect must be based on enjoyment, adapted to their abilities and interests and accompanied with love and respect at the child's own pace.

Music Therapy is a very broad, precious and often unknown field that provides us with very useful resources. It allows us to achieve an ideal learning framework, especially in environments where we work on communication and verbal and non-verbal language.

Read on to discover some resources you can use at home!

Adapt to your little one

The first thing we have to do is align ourselves with our little one, with their way of doing things, with their way of behaving, with their preferred medium... We have to observe if they are a kinetic, visual and auditory child.

In this way, we will be able to adapt this process from the perspective that best suits it and, later, promote other modalities to complement this learning and this intervention.

Attraction to the musical medium

It is important to know if your child is attracted to the musical environment, and if he or she reacts to certain sounds, to certain songs or to certain dynamics that involve the musical area?

To begin, we will need a list of aspects, situations, activities or musical preferences of your child. Thus, we will try to reproduce those situations, activities and preferences to achieve that reaction that naturally develops.

Moments of exploration

Will we offer moments of exploration, where, at the beginning, we will act as mere observers?

We will try to expose you to different situations , preparing the space with different materials, with certain music and with certain instruments that we can collect at home, to force that moment of musical exploration in a sweet way.

Can we be a DJ? to see if he makes auditory contact with new and different music that he has never heard before to see his reactions.

emotional part

Observe the emotional part very well. Music has the power to align with our memories and provokes feelings and emotions of very different types.

Our children with communication and language difficulties are especially sensitive to this medium.

Their forms of emotional regulation are unique, we must know them and know how they are handled in the emotion of joy, fear, excitement, surprise, sadness and nostalgia?

Through music, we can take an emotional tour of all these states. Choose an appropriate day to make this journey and, if necessary, support it with images so that it can visualize the emotions while listening to them. It is a super rich musical journey that can give us a lot of vital information about feelings, emotions and all the regulation that has in these processes.

Encourage imitation

Imitation is the basis of presence, participation, awareness and learning. Therefore, we always have to try to encourage all aspects of imitation . In the first moments the imitation will be one way, that is, we will be the projecting mirror of what he/she does.

We will keep it a long time for it to connect, because with some things we project it will, but with others it won't. We also have to do a musical and sound, vocal or instrumental test of the sounds that surround the boy or girl, whether vocal, instrumental or noises.

Should you become a speaker? and enhancer of all the sound that generally surrounds your child. And perhaps, from there, with a good job done, we can take one more step and achieve the round trip where the little one joins, connects and participates.

Remember, music can change the world because it can change people and we hope it does?

Thank you very much to all of you who were present at the WEBINAR to learn about Music Therapy techniques to stimulate Productive Language , if you have not seen it yet, send us a message through our Instagram or Facebook and we will send you the complete recording! ??