Sound Therapy

Switch Activities for Special Needs
 

Switches are such a simple technology that it’s easy to overlook them in the era of super-computers and flying cars, but they’re a technology which almost anyone can make use of to empower individuals with special needs, allowing them to bring about change by themselves.
In this article I’m going describe, step [...]

An Autism Friendly Family Screening
It is estimated around 1 in 100 children between the ages of five and nine have autistic spectrum disorders, but recent research from Cambridge University suggests the figure is actually closer to 1 in 64, meaning (by my less than rigorous mathematical reckoning) there are around 781,250 children affected by the [...]

Squiggly Who?
Is it an octopus? Is it a fish? The strange colourful creatures that
live in the sensory gazebo of a Music Gym are in fact Squiggly Normans.

The Birth of Sound Therapy
Autism can present many challenges for children, their parents, teachers and carers. No approach offers a magical cure: however recent advances in movement sensor technology and in the development of   therapies that make use of them may help open a door, offering what may well be the users’ first experience of [...]

 
A Music Gym Review

There’s a whole world of therapeutic benefits a low requirement media player opens up especially in the setting of special needs schools and with the right assistive technology anyone can be in control, possibly for the first time in their lives.
For some individuals this could be a very big deal indeed…