Music and Autism: a possible and favorable relationship || Música y Autismo: una relación posible y favorable [Eng/Esp]

Warm greetings dear #Hive community, I missed you, but today I'm back and very motivated to share with you a useful and valuable content for those who face #RespectfulParenting also in the context of Autism Spectrum (and in general for those who want to educate themselves about it).

A few weeks ago dear @jamidiamon asked me for some music recommendations for children on the #Autism Spectrum, with this post I hope to address her concern and with all affection, help her.

Music therapy, which is the strategic and planned use of music for therapeutic purposes, offers tools of great depth for each approach, however, this is not what we will deal with, but some PEDAGOGICAL activities that we can try at home (with great care and respect) and that can provide the benefits I mentioned before:

*NOTE: In each of the proposed activities, the tolerance of the autistic child or adult must be taken into account; the sensitivity to sound and musical stimuli may vary in each person, so the intensity and timbres should be increased (and even reduced) little by little and respectfully.

1 - Sound sources:

Anything that can originate sound is considered a sound source (a guitar, a table being struck, an engine running... anything), this is not properly music, but it is an excellent tool to exercise active listening, and develop concentration through sound discrimination. Locate some instruments and/or objects with which they can create sounds, gather them together and start creating (little rhyme schemes made by tapping, strumming or clapping the sound sources are ideal). You can also make an object sound without it being in sight and recognize what produces it.

2 - Timbres:

Musically speaking, the timbre qualities are really very diverse, there are very bright, sweet, strident timbres, and there are also opaque, dark, deep... The musical pieces, in context, also have timbres, and these, in turn, we usually associate them with sensations: experiment with music that evokes subtlety, tranquility, sweetness, energy, impetuosity, and whatever you want; observe the reactions and identify what you enjoy (in this case instrumental music can be very useful).

3 - Singing:

In general singing is a wonderful resource because it is intoned speech, curiously a process in which many more elements are involved than in plain speaking, because when we sing we perform modulations, intervallic jumps, intensity changes, and much more, and yet our brain processes it naturally. Many people manage to acquire language or overcome speech problems by singing, because music is also our nature, musicality flows from us and gives us harmony, and harmony is order. Listen to a lot of vocal music.

4 -Songs that tell stories:

The songs that tell a story are very useful, because it is easier to understand and connect with a song that threads together a series of events, or actions, than with one whose parts do not have such an obvious connection.

What are the pieces of music you should use?, is something very personal, and will depend on your tastes, values and beliefs, but if you take into account these tips when choosing, you will surely do very well ☺

You can also read

• Música Infantil, ¿qué promover y qué evitar? / Beneficios para el desarrollo integral (con playlists incluidos) | Children's Music, what to promote and what to avoid / Benefits for integral development (with playlists included)

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Espero les haya gustado y más aún, que sea de provecho para ustedes. ¡Gracias por leerme!

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