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Each Songame™ CD contains fun musical activities for improving fine- and gross-motor skills, muscle strength, and rhythmicity. These musical gems are useful for engaging kids in active games, as well as helping kids calm down and focus. Songames are great for enhancing oral-motor skills and expressive language play and decreasing tactile, auditory, visual, and sensory defensiveness. Kids will want to play Songames over and over again!

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  Songames for Sensory Integration
25 Therapist-created Musical Activities for Improving Fine-
and Gross-Motor Skills, Muscle Strength, and Rhythmicity

by Aubrey Lande MS, OTR, Bob Wiz & friends

Fun and engaging for kids ages 3-11, these 25 therapist-created Songames offer a world of developmental play activities. Plus, the 53-page companion booklet explains how to use music to enhance specific skills, provides a comprehensive list of resources, and triples the number of therapeutic ways to use the games!

Songames can engage children in active play and help children learn to calm down and stay focused, as well as enhance oral-motor skills and expressive-language play.

Includes 2 CDs + booklet - 87 minutes of music

ISBN: 978-1-932565-95-9  $24.95  BUY IT NOW!

28 Instant Songames
Fun-Filled Activities for Kids 3-8
by Barbara Sher, MS, OTR

Twenty-eight games that make children feel good about themselves—what could be more fun than that?? Winner of the 2000 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio SNAP Award and Dr. Toy’s Best Vacation Children’s Products, 28 Instant Songames is great fun for typically developing children, as well as those with special needs!

This full-length, 28-song music CD will get kids up and moving in no time. The activities include numerous games of body awareness, movement play, feeling identification, and self-expression, as well as imagination games that encourage expressive language play. These less complex Songames and activities are perfect for younger children.

Includes CD + 48-page booklet

ISBN: 978-1-932565-96-6  $21.95  BUY IT NOW!

  Marvelous Mouth Music
by Suzanne Evans Morris, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Marvelous Mouth Music is an audio CD of 21 activity-based SongamesTM designed by Dr. Suzanne Evans Morris, an internationally recognized speech therapist. Ideally suited for kids ages 2-9, this CD brings speech development to life through musical play. Instrumentation includes guitar, mandolin, dulcimer, drums, synthesizer, and percussion.

The 55-page companion booklet includes a “How to Use” section, song lyrics, a model for how to use all types of music to promote therapeutic change, and a glossary of important terms written in easy-to-understand, parent-centered language.

ISBN: 978-1-932565-97-3  $21.95  BUY IT NOW!

  Danceland
Songames and Activities to Improve Sensory Skills
by Kristen Fitz Taylor RPT and Cheryl McDonald RPT

Danceland is a musical invitation to move joyfully and creatively! Designed for slightly older children, ages 5-12, the music invites participation and engages children in rhythmic expression, which is fundamental to physical, cognitive, and emotional development. Designed by physical and occupational therapists, more than 75 movement activities can be adapted for physical education and home programming.

The “travel guide” combines theory with instruction, while encouraging you to put your own creative twists on the activities. Turn dances into games, choreographed stories, or theatrical performances! Polka to an authentic Krakowiak or have kids choreograph their own movements to singer Lora Dart’s Native American song, “Touch the Earth.” Kids can croon karaoke-style to an uproarious remake of the 60s hit, “Wild Thing,” or have a Kwanzaa party to “Wisdom of Africa.” The possibilities are endless!!

ISBN: 978-1-935567-10-3  $21.95  BUY IT NOW!

  Soothing the Senses
by Fred Hersch

Award-winning pianist Fred Hersch plays 15 luxuriously gentle and lyrical selections to relax and soothe the senses. The CD features compositions from Hersch as well as Debussy, Mozart, Bach, and Gershwin. The accompanying leaflet features tips and resources for caregivers.

A Message from Fred Hersch: I am truly gratified that a very personal project that began as a simple expression of my love for two wonderful children may now have a positive impact beyond my immediate circle of family and friends. I sincerely hope that the music touches you and the ones you love.

ISBN: 978-1-932565-94-2  $17.95  BUY IT NOW!

  Wiggly Scarecrow: Songs for Sensational Kids Vol 1
by Coles Whalen

Kids are sure to dance to the delight of Coles Whalen in this fun activity CD! A great CD for parents, teachers, and therapists, children are sure to be inspired to dance and sing along to the tunes of the guitar. The funky western sound of “Dancing Cowboy Rodeo” will help enhance children’s vestibular and proprioceptive functions while the uptempo beat of “The Wishy Washy Men” can be used to teach children to keep movements and voices in control as an activity gets faster and faster. The Wiggly Scarecrow helps children understand their uniqueness and builds self-esteem as they learn the lyrics and sing with confidence.

$14.95  BUY IT NOW!

  Say G’Day!
by Genevieve Jereb

Teachers, therapists, and parents will love these fun-filled rhythms that support and sustain focused attention, organized movement, and effective interaction within the classroom, home, or clinic. Most of all, the kids will enjoy singing along and dancing to these creative songs.

$19.95  BUY IT NOW!

  Jumpin’ Jellybeans
by Gen Jereb and Friends

Jumpin’ Jellybeans is the long-awaited NEW collection of songs from Gen Jereb and Friends. This 20-song collection keeps kids involved in directed activities to enhance attention and alertness, provide rhythmic entertainment, improve body awareness, and strengthen patterns of respiration.

$19.95  BUY IT NOW!

  Cool Bananas
by Genevieve Jereb

Cool Bananas was created to provide children with a selection of strong, regulated rhythms to support a state of calm, organization and regulation in their nervous systems. Enchanting favorite children’s songs sung at 50 to 70 beats per minute support the dysregulated child.

$19.95  BUY IT NOW!

  Mozart Effect, Volume I
Compiled by Don Campbell

Don Campbell, musician, teacher, and author of The Mozart Effect for Children, has selected some of the best of Mozart’s music to stimulate and inspire young minds. Use the music as a background to learning. Or coordinate activities to teach listening, rhythm, or other skills..

$9.95  BUY IT NOW!

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