Talkin' Tunes Speech and Music Therapy Group

This class is co-led by a Speech Language Pathologist and Board Certified Music Therapist. Kids will work on expressive and receptive communication skills that enhance group learning experiences. This group meets on Tuesdays from 3-3:45PM at our office in Edina.

Goal areas may include:

Self-Regulatory skills - implementing coping and calming strategies, decreasing aggression, and accepting and/or seeking out adult help
Social skills - appropriate sharing, cooperating, taking turns, accepting others’ play ideas, following rules, transitioning safely from activity to activity, and sharing experiences
Self-Help and Emotional skills - identify and appropriately express feelings, using words or augmentive and alternative communication, develop empathy
Communication skills - conversation, gestures/body language, sign language, quality of voice, expressive and receptive language
Cognitive skills - preschool concepts (e.g. identifying colors, letters, numbers, printed name), attention, executive function

Therapuetic Music Interventions may include:

Functional instrument play: Working together or independently playing an instrument to improve social and motor skills.
Song writing: Choosing a theme that the family is working towards and writing a song together to foster attachment and positive family interaction.
Musical games: Games to work on auditory perception, visual perception, communication, and cooperation skills.

Movement to music: Using dance and yoga to improve social, motor, and communication skills.
Singing: Using call-and-response, performing, and group singing to improve self-regulation, social, academic, motor, and communication skills.
Sensory exploration: Using a variety of instruments and tools that improve self-regulation and motor skills