This is an AMAZING talk. If you teach students with hearing challenges, this will be great for you to see and learn about. Actually, this is important for all of us to learn about!
If you don’t have 16 minutes to watch this, I encourage you to click on the website and read the transcript. It’s very interesting.
Charles Limb performs cochlear implantation, a surgery that treats hearing loss and can restore the ability to hear speech. But as a musician too, Limb thinks about what the implants lack: They don’t let you fully experience music yet. (There’s a hair-raising example.) At TEDMED, Limb reviews the state of the art and the way forward.
Charles Limb
Charles Limb is a doctor and a musician who researches the way musical creativity works in the brain. Full bio and more links
What did you think about this? Do you teach any students with cochlear implants?
The Book Strike It Rich has some really cool mallet activities that a lot of autistic children can do. I use them with my self contained autistic classes 2nd grade – 5th grade and they love it. There is a little song called Monkey Monkey that teaches steady beat and proper mallet technique – it’s a rhyme and they can tap the rhythm on the desk, floor or their hand. And they have to scratch like a monkey to the beat. I make them scratch themselves with the same hand they hold the mallet with, if it falls it means they were not holding it correctly.