To learn about various topics and improve their social skills, learners with special needs play along with music on drums and other sound objects. Teachers take digital pictures of the students participation and use them to make bulletin boards and AV shows for specific teaching units. 

Concepts

down syndrome, disabilities, autism, social skills

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Additional Tags

autism, down syndrome, Photography, social skills, special needs students, programs

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Instructional Ideas

• Document the activities with a digital camera and display the images on school bulletin boards and/or in parent newsletters

Classroom Considerations

• Requires access to digital cameras, or a video camcorder, and projection equipment

Pros

• Includes suggestions for how to adapt the exercise for students with more involved physical challenges

Cons

• None