music- nonverbal kids often have best musical skills!

[Guest guest]

Re my previous post, just to highlight that often pre-verbal kids have

better musical and sight-reading skills than verbal kids. A brilliant

Suzuki piano teacher, Daphne Proietto in Melbourne, Australia whom we

know teaches mostly non-verbal kids (FREE!!) around 20 ASD kids in

total - pity there aren't more of her sort over here. She finds some

of her most gifted pupils are non-verbal and are now around Gd 7 - 8

piano, amazing sight readers and generally inspired by music and love

it. Daphne is now writing a book about teaching piano to kids on the

spectrum. Another amazing Suzuki piano teacher, Caroline Fraser in

Peru, teaches kids only by miming, using no language at all, with

everything done through gesture and facial expression - all very RDI!

Rhona