Introduction:
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Have an wonderful time with your family or loves ones. Family can be related blood, friends, or anyone whose truly care for you. This week is going to be a special treat. It will be shorter, but has some amazing videos and other cool information that I felt that I should add to this. Like normal, It will be my classmates resources from Lesson 10, things I found useful or enlightening from this week lesson, and links that I found interesting and helpful. The only differences is that I am also going to add a thanksgiving video to this slide to add to the spirit of thanksgiving, and also an video that we watch one of our assignments that is inspiring. It is about a guy who is an artist, but his arms are not usable, and so he draw everything with his mouth, and those drawings are better drawings than I can draw with my own hands. What an talented guy. Just by looking at the drawing, you would never guess it was someone who draw with their mouths. Don't let anyone tells you you can't do anything, you can do anything you put your heart into. Enjoy!!!
Classmates resources from Lesson 10:
Jessica
- when I googled prosthetic for sports the top website that came up was Horton's Orthodontics and Prosthetic, I was looking on their website and they
have legs for swimming biking and running, and hands and arms as
well.
Emma Tennyson - Thanks for sharing your thoughts Jessica! From my web search results, I'd say that prognostics are more advanced and readily available than before.
- http://theweek.com/articles/448972/future-artificial-limbs Paige Zohner
- This is from Paige and it actually from Lesson 2, but I felt that this was really helpful in making programs accessible and to help those with disabilities to participated. https://cmetoolkit.com/wp-content/uploads/Recreational-Activities-for-People-with-Disabilities.pdf
- the resource is from Lesson 10, and it is about a kid name Josh who is blind and he love play time, but not able to play with his friends. They made it possible so he could play with his friends. "How Josh finally got to play with his friends - BBC Stories
- "https://youtu.be/caEr5xQrgNY
- "The Benefits of Outdoor Activity" This is about how Outdoor activities help disabilities, mental illnesses, etc. Just 30 minutes a day can help you health. https://youtu.be/pPwZUL6Dd3Q
- This isn't a video Davin added, but watching this made me think about those with mental illnesses, which in a sense is like a disability by itself. It stop you from functioning normally and life is just harder. the first one is called "Living with Depression" It shares what it is like. https://youtu.be/EJ_S5Rjt_iI . The second one is called, "7 Tips to Help Manage Depression, Anxiety, Insecurity & Low Self-Esteem" This video give you tips to help you feel better. Just like a broken bone, it take time to heal. The last thing is what always help me is listening to music of people who struggle with despression and how they find hope. Kerrie Roberts is one of the best one to listen to. It called, "Kerrie Roberts- "Come Back to Life" https://youtu.be/u66wLLGCSP0 . If you sit in the darkness, it is not going to get better, you have to act. and another thing that is important to know that it is ok to be not ok.
- Also want my companion will always tell me (down below)
2. remember who you are! there's power and strength in your divinity!
3.change bring beauty! All the great things in life were possible because of change!
4. there's power in repentance because it allows us to take holding of the enabling power of the atonement to lift us higher every time we fall.
5. Every change is different because everyone is different and learns differently. Don't compare your change to anyone else's!
6. You always have resources and you are never alone. Your greatest resource is your Father in Heaven and He will never leave you. Christ was alone so you would never have to be.
Lastly, "I love you because of who you are. None of this changes that, none of the changes change that, none of the "issues" change that. You are beautiful and amazing!!
Jake Muhlestein
- "The North Face and Paradox Sports: Adaptive Climbing Initiative" This is a video of how North Face go to all different gyms to make rock climbing available for anyone, even for those in wheel chairs. so cool! https://youtu.be/v8gyNf56rIM
- She added an article how people with Cerebral palsy can enjoy the outdoors. https://www.cerebralpalsyguidance.com/cerebral-palsy/living/enjoying-outdoors/
A. Assignments
- My question I had from Lesson 10 was, "The main thing is how to you make sure every program is accessible? How do you figure out a way to support a specific disability when the resources haven't been discovered yet? What is the best way to discover those unknown resources? Do you think this can also be applied to those who love basketball, but hurt their back which make them not be able to play basketball just to the back injury?" The answer I received was how It hard to make all programs accessible.. you have to do what you can do.. and when you see others needs that are not being meet, help them become part of your program.
- Application assignment
Like Outdoor activities and Sports the Arts provides participants with many unique opportunities. The arts includes such activities as music, theater, painting, sculpting and pottery, photography, creative writing, and poetry, etc. Participation in the arts can be broken down into three distinct levels:
- The Perceiver: At this level participants might enjoy listening to music, watching a play or going to a photo exhibition. They appreciate the talents of others.
- The Performer: Performers enjoy playing a piano piece or acting in a play. Their participation is much more than that of the perceiver.
- The Creator: Participants at this level enjoy shooting photos, sculpting with clay or painting a mountain setting. Participation involves high levels of creativity.
- Researchers have identified the following benefits of participation in the Arts at any level:
- Self-discovery
- Communication with others
- Improved self-concept
- Skill development
- Societal recognition and awareness
- Social interaction
Music Therapy for People with Disabilities
(Full Article and more information here: Music Therapy)Abstract: Information regarding music therapy as an effective educational and therapeutic tool for children and adults with disabilities.“An increasing amount of scientific evidence indicates that rhythm stimulates and organizes a person’s muscle responses and helps people with neuromuscular disorders.”
Detail: Music therapy is an effective educational and therapeutic tool for both children and adults with forms of disabilities. The strategies involved with music therapy may effect changes in skill areas that are important for people with a variety of forms of disabilities such as learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, autism and many others. As a person with disabilities, I have found music to be invaluable in relation to the forms of disabilities I experience.
From a therapeutic perspective, music has a number of benefits for people with disabilities. It is an important learning tool of course. A portion of the benefits of music comes from the fact that repetition within music may be more enjoyable than without it. Music also provides significant memorization assistance. Maybe the most important thing for some people is the fact that they can participate in music even if they experience difficulties in other areas and music therapists are trained to help them accomplish this goal. Successful participation in music can find a person with a disability feeling motivated to pursue additional efforts.
Music is also an effective way to stimulate and focus a person’s attention and might be particularly significant for some people who may not respond to other types of interventions. At times, music is used as a stimulating introduction. At other times, an entire therapeutic intervention might be structured using music to maintain a person’s attention. Changes in music may provide other signals or alerts that important interactions or information are coming. Some kinds of music might also provide a calming effect when a person’s anxiety interferes with their cognitive focus.
- Music therapy is an effective tool to use for stimulating and motivating a person’s speech. It provides a path for nonverbal communication as well. Music therapy is a valuable tool for people who are learning to use an augmentative or alternative system of communication.
- In some songs, harmony and melody cue a person’s speech by setting up a type of auditory anticipation, yet delaying the resolution until a person provides the final lyric. In other singing activities, rhythm may help a person to slow down their rate of speech and become more intelligible. The way songs are stored and the way rhythm stimulates a person’s motor function appears to help people with apraxia of speech. Changing melody lines can help to improve a person’s range and the inflection of their voice.
- An increasing amount of scientific evidence indicates that rhythm stimulates and organizes a person’s muscle responses and helps people with neuromuscular disorders – one of the ways that music therapy strategies can help to improve a person’s physical skills. When a specific note played on an electronic device or an instrument is crucial to the completion of a particular song, anyone – to include people with severe forms of physical disabilities, can become the focus of a successful musical experience. The opportunity to participate in music may motivate a person to attempt physical movements that require some additional effort. Music may also be very relaxing, on the other hand, and help to alter a person’s perception of pain.
- As a person who experiences pain related to osteoarthritis, music has become a part of my relaxation therapy. Listening to certain types of music helps me to relax and also helps to ease the physical pain I experience through relaxation to music. After learning that I can use music as a means of relaxation, it has become a part of my routine for responding to osteoarthritis pain.
- Music therapy can help people work on their social skills too. It helps in a couple of ways – by providing a familiar and consistent support for practicing, and by encouraging cooperation in the completion of a satisfying musical product such as a musical piece accompanied by others who each play a beat for example where each note is important. Music also provides people with developmental disabilities with opportunities to interact and cooperate with those who do not experience these forms of disabilities. Music has the ability to equalize and enrich the lives of those who become involved with it.
- From an emotional perspective, music provides people with many opportunities to express and experience a number of emotions. The desire to participate in music, as well as to produce something musical, may become motivations to control emotional outbursts. Live music may be changed from moment to moment to reflect, or maybe alter, the moods of the people who are listening and participating. Successful participation with music that a great many people with disabilities have the ability to achieve has a positive effect on self-esteem too.
- From a simple perspective, music has always been something that I can enjoy with others because I enjoy a number of types of music. It is a social equalizer in many ways and has led to friendships, social participation, and much more. Somehow, when music becomes involved, the presence of disabilities seem to fade or disappear entirely. Where pain is concerned, music is one of the best things in the world.
Resources I found Helpful:
- The first one is a website that shares the important of art. http://www.arttherapyblog.com/what-is-art-therapy/#.WhRY2TRrzIU
- The next one is called, "How Does Art Therapy Heal the Soul? | The Science of Happiness" For this, it doesn't matter good or bad you are at drawing. That isn't the point. In this exercise, they had them write on a piece of paper who they are, and put colors by each... than you draw with those colors on a trace on your body on the wall, and described to a therapist is what you realizes though your drawing. https://youtu.be/BN2rTaFUlxs
This was insightful. to know how art can really help. It also make me want to use art as a therapy for those I work with. Help me have a desire to do art again as well. Have an wonderful week, and yes before I go, I will put up a thanksgiving video. https://youtu.be/G7j07SsBhTk
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