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What do I like to sing in a circle?
The communication is that vibration that brings you a little out and puts you a little inside.
Hello, I am a speech therapist and I see the power of singing everywhere.
The most exciting aspect of my work? The daily challenge in entering into relationship and encourage communication between the individual and the outside world. Often between an individual with great difficulties and an external world that places different barriers.
The power of the singing
... I used it to be able to enter into a relationship with a syndromic girl, seriously compromised from a cognitive and behavioral point of view. We listened to a song together and sang a little, looking in the eyes, without asking anything about each other, just to be there at that moment. There we stipulated our therapeutic contract, without telling it, it was clear: I put the song that she liked to her, which then liked to me too, and then we could start working on the words so difficult;
... I saw it the power of singing with a deaf child, with a coclear system, a system that serves to remake the sounds of the environment at a neuronal and perceptive level. First he must identify the interesting and relevant sounds of the environment and then codify them to allow understanding of words by associating them with their meanings. I remember during the degree course, he often sang our tutor;
... or during a re -education session of stuttering. I thought I had earned the loop station to play only me, instead I brought it to the studio when I understood that my little patient of 7 years liked electronic music. We drew me two who sang with the microphone, a beautiful design, full of joy and gratitude. We worked on the rhythm, on the management of times, on listening and on the perception of fluidity of the air that transports the voice, on the freedom to make mistakes, on the possibility of expressing what you want.
... I was clear to me during a treatment of a paradoxical vocal wetsuit. With a beautiful boy who grew up who did not accept his changed voice. He liked to sing, I discovered. And we did Karaoke together, we recorded and listened to. First and second voice, mine and clear mine, deep and warm his. He could no longer avoid loving her, that new voice, of which he was so afraid before.
... and then in the stimulation of the prerequisites of verbal language, in a group of children 0-3 years and related parents. Because in a circle, with the phonic games repeated and associated with target objects, the children began to experiment with the lallation, stimulated by the vision of the other and by the participation of everyone. Singing stimulates the shift, shared attention, prosody and coordination.
... I see him almost every day, the power of singing and his spontaneity, with the people affected by a stroke, seriously aphasic and terribly frightened by the impossibility of planning any word. Sometimes we sing to bring out the first words, we exploit the automatic-voluntary dissociation that allows the recovery of verbal strings learned and known by heart. Then from there we start with a hard and long work of recovering the understanding and production of language, oral and written.
... once even with an oncological patient, who had overcome many but was very debilitated and had stopped playing. One day someone brought him the guitar to the hospital and when he played it for his roommates, the doctors and nurses rushed, they overlooked the door and sang with such emotion.
I have not spoken specifically for methods, but there is the LSVT, the Zora Drezancic, the verb-Tonale, the MIT and others, which have been studied and standardized and which are part of the baggage of knowledge of us speech therapists.
And then one day I saw a circle
For many people, even very different from each other, who did not know each other before. Each section sang a part, which was intertwined with other parts and created a polyphony, a choral composition based on the improvisation of a facilitator, in the center, which kept them together and started from them, from their energy, to give a structure, a vibration ordered to the whole. As in a spectrogram , I thought, the sound produced by the vocal cords would be noise if it was not organized in formants, thanks to the passage and contact with the resonators, which are physical elements such as our bodies in the space of the circle.
As I sang with them my body and my mind were overestimated by everything I felt and also from what I knew thanks to my profession. I immediately thought of many concepts and principles of speech therapy rehabilitation: selective attention and working memory, the management of the vocal intensity in relation to the whole and the pneumophonic coordination. Coariculation favored by the prosody and repetitiveness of the stimuli, which promotes learning. And so, strong and clear, I started to think that circlesinging has an even higher potential, in some respects, to that of singing.
Hello, I am a speech therapist and I can't play. But I recently taking singing lessons, which at some point seemed to me to do, and for a while I started to think that circlesinging can give interesting contributions to my profession. Perhaps also because I have always liked the circle and facilitator.
And I feel them deeply part of me, like Giulia and as a speech therapist
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