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Improving language Skills with “Rapid Fire Improvisation”
I adapted Rapid Fire Improvisation from a method I learned in a speaker’s boot camp in the mid-1990s. The purpose of the boot camp was to improve skills as a public speaker. Our instructor would select an object or thing in the room and we would speak about the object as quickly as possible, saying...
The Musical Brain
Music as therapy is becoming the new “it” discussion. With high profile books such as Oliver Sack’s “Musicophilia” and Daniel Levitin’s bestseller “This is Your Brain on Music,” music as therapy is making its’ way into mainstream media. Both books identify music as a very complex brain...
The Case For Addressing Theory of Mind Deficits in Language Intervention
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Diane Twachtman-Cullen in
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06 17th, 2009 |
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Many years ago Charles Hart, author of Without Reason: A Family Copes with Two Generations of Autism, shared a story about his son Ted that gave me a window both on the social / communication problems that are hallmark features of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and their relationship to theory of mind....