This project uses rock music to help autistic children learn to speak

[AGXStarseed]

(Not written by me)

Cheap Trick's Tom Petersson founded the project with his wife Alison

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Cheap Trick’s Tom Petersson, alongside his wife Alison, have created a new project which uses music to encourage autistic children to learn to speak.


Inspired by the couple’s autistic son Liam, who didn’t begin speaking until he was five years old, Rock Your Speech incorporates speech and language lessons into rock music. The songs incorporate basic phrases such as, “I’m hungry,” “I’m tired” and “I don’t feel good” into rock songs which “teach language in a very simplified and literal way.”

“We wanted to use just enough words and lots of repetition, just like we do in speech therapy,” said Alison. "One of the first songs we recorded was 'What’s Your Name,' and an amazing thing happened. Liam started to ask everyone he saw, 'What’s your name?’”

SOURCE: http://www.gigwise.com/news/106647/...p-trick-help-autistic-children-learn-to-speak

 

[Mia]

This is an interesting idea, I learned quite early as a child to listen to music. It likely has a great deal to do with my reading and speaking skills, so it seems at least for me that music contributes a great deal. My first thought on looking at this article is that kids learn to speak while rock music is playing, because the first thing they say is "Can you turn down the volume?"

 

[watersprite]

I like this very much. Music helped me so much when I was young.

Here is a bit more.
http://www.tennessean.com/story/ent...petersson-makes-rock-n-roll-purpose/83231350/

https://soundcloud.com/https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Frock-your-speech-1%2F02-whats-your-name-30sec

Copies of the CD and other Rock Your Speech merchandise, as well as more information on the project, are available on the organization's website, rockyourspeech.com.

 

[tree]

Reminds me of the older Sesame Street stuff,
back when they concentrated on basics and not
so much social.