I have been traveling for the past month (visiting my glorious Ukraine), and have not had time to add any updates about my music therapy progress.
Today however I had a trial class in a new school, with two new children. Actually they are not really kids, but rather young adults - both being in their twenties. It was the first time, that I interacted with patients who are not 3 years old and who can actually speak. I enjoyed our class tremendously, and feel that I can truly use the music to help them explore their inner feelings and emotions, and find soothing pleasure in music.
In our class today we did few songs that I use with my other students - these are mainly children songs in Arabic, few in English, and a beautiful lullaby in Arabic. They were received very positively, I guess, due to the fact that they are very well known and my students could follow them and sing along since the beginning.
I also used some props (pictures of vegetables and fruits), while singing to a 'Shopping song' (to be posted soon), and it worked wonders, as it gave them safe background to show their knowledge, laugh at fun pictures, and help be at ease while communicating with me.
Also, turned out Fairuz is the ever favorite! I am truly excited about using some of her songs for our therapy classes. I hope we can have good discussions around the lyrics, and use those songs as means of expressing inner world of my students.
Overall, exciting! New direction, new approach and new challenge!
Today however I had a trial class in a new school, with two new children. Actually they are not really kids, but rather young adults - both being in their twenties. It was the first time, that I interacted with patients who are not 3 years old and who can actually speak. I enjoyed our class tremendously, and feel that I can truly use the music to help them explore their inner feelings and emotions, and find soothing pleasure in music.
In our class today we did few songs that I use with my other students - these are mainly children songs in Arabic, few in English, and a beautiful lullaby in Arabic. They were received very positively, I guess, due to the fact that they are very well known and my students could follow them and sing along since the beginning.
I also used some props (pictures of vegetables and fruits), while singing to a 'Shopping song' (to be posted soon), and it worked wonders, as it gave them safe background to show their knowledge, laugh at fun pictures, and help be at ease while communicating with me.
Also, turned out Fairuz is the ever favorite! I am truly excited about using some of her songs for our therapy classes. I hope we can have good discussions around the lyrics, and use those songs as means of expressing inner world of my students.
Overall, exciting! New direction, new approach and new challenge!
