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Yes We Can! Students with Autism & Down-Syndrome on the Drums! Lesson PlanYes We Can! Students with Autism & Down-Syndrome on the Drums! Lesson Plan
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Yes We Can! Students with Autism & Down-Syndrome on the Drums!

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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 learners participation and use them to make bulletin boards and AV shows for specific teaching units. 

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down syndrome, disabilities, autism, social skills

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

Instructional Ideas

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

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

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

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  • None

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