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The Sound to Symbol Methodology has been developed over the past 30 years. It has grown from work in education through music and has been expanded to include application in literacy and orality. It is an important method for developing oral language skills in the context of social play and for practicing important sensory motor integration activities that arise in the context of the game play.
The songs are structured for cooperative social interaction and are based on simple movements and gestures that engage attention and provide both sequencing and patterns of social interaction carried by the song’s architecture. Many of the song actions were developed based on the work of the late Dr. Jean Ayers, an occupational therapist who pioneered activities for children in sensory motor integration.
The Sound to Symbol Methodology has application in the school classroom, in early learning settings, with children with special needs, and with multi-lingual language learning. It is an orally based methodology.
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