Monday, February 10, 2014
In searching for my topic, I found this article. This is exactly what I am looking for. This speech-pathologist is using various forms of dance to help children with the physical aspects of speech therapy and it has been shown to be helpful. Dance does use a lot of motions that move across the midline of the body, so that would be extremely beneficial in improving cross-brain functions. It may also seem counter-intuitive, but dance lessons do improve sense of direction in students with dyslexia. This article supports my theory that using dance as a part of speech therapy is very helpful for students with speech-language disorders.
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1. I really liked the effort that you put in to finding and discussing an article.
ReplyDelete2. Maybe it would be a good idea to link to additional articles to further explore the topic?
3. In addition to the ASLU article that I mentioned earlier, there's a few dance magazines that have published articles on this particular topic.
1. This was a super article! I appreciated your reflection and summary.
ReplyDelete2. Are there any SLP's doing similar things? I'd love to read more. I'd also like to see more information about dance and cross-brain functions/ dyslexia/ etc.
3. This article may not directly correlate with your project, but it talks about how a lot of SLP's were dancers and the expression involved. I thought you might be interested in reading the interviews: http://www.asha.org/publications/leader/2006/060228/060228d.htm
1. Really cool article that you put a lot of thought into finding.
ReplyDelete2. Really look in deeper into this. Find more articles and talk to other SLPs doing the same thing.
3. Check out some dance magazines or documentaries about deaf dancers. Also look into speech pathology as a tool for dance.
1. I really liked the article you found for this and I'm sure it wasn't especially easy to find it.
ReplyDelete2. I think additional articles or maybe some of these instructional videos would help in driving your point home.
3. I again agree with the previous commenters, there are numerous publications that look into this topic as well as articles about deaf dancers explaining how they learned dance.