EARLY CHILDHOOD VIDEO SERIES
This unique virtual music program is geared towards helping families create a music-rich home environment for infants and young children. The series includes 4 tutorial videos, in which instructor Sally Blandon walks parents through the key steps to start their infant on their musical journey. Included in the tutorials are ways to help you and your child enjoy classic lullabies and new songs even, before your baby has a hearing device.
FHSR’s MUSIC TO MY EARS (MTME) TUTORIAL VIDEOS
This series was created for anyone caring for a newborn with hearing loss. The videos walk parents and caregivers through key concepts and offer practical advice to create a music-rich home environment.
Our skin is our largest organ. TOUCH is our most primal sense and is associated with the largest organ in the human body – our skin. Of all the senses to develop, touch is the first and begins before the baby is born (Field, 2001).
This video introduces the concept of the steady beat to engage with your child and encourage them to experience music through other modalities besides hearing.Â
​A child is not ‘born with rhythm,’ they must be exposed to it. Children with hearing loss – even profound hearing loss – sense vibration in the part of the brain used for hearing, THE AUDITORY CORTEX.
Join Sally as she explores fun and interactive ways to engage your deaf or hard of hearing child in musical books.
Early Literacy is not about reading at a young age, but rather helping a child further develop their ocular musculature, vestibular nerves and stamina to have strong and fully integrated bodies. Early Literacy also further develops eye tracking, which helps integrate crawling, walking, reading, crossing the street, playing a sport and much much more!
This video demonstrates how to incorporate movement into your deaf or hard of hearing child’s life in a meaningful way. Deaf and hard of hearing children experience music through movement in powerful ways.
Music and Movement go hand in hand​. Dance is critical in helping children conceptualize sound and music by helping them develop their:
- Spacial Awareness
- Vestibular System
- Anticipatory Skills
MUSIC TO MY EARS (MTME)
MUSIC TO MY EARS (MTME) SCHOLARSHIP
Research has shown the importance of exposing children to music in early childhood. Music is especially beneficial for a child with hearing loss. From language acquisition to sentence structure, inflection and tone, exposure to music provides indelible, lifelong benefits.
The Music To My Ears Scholarship Program allows all children with hearing loss, regardless of financial need, to attend weekly music enrichment classes and experience the joy of music with their caregivers and hearing peers.
The scholarship will provide one year of tuition-free music classes to (up to 8 years of age) who are deaf or hard of hearing and living in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.
A $900 donation will sponsor a year of classes for one child with hearing loss, allowing them to attend weekly music classes and experience the joy and power of music.