conduct to music

Category cognitive
Population DD adult
Source unknown
Contributor Kathryn Stevenson
Materials / equipment CD player or keyboard
Description of activity

Ask each group member in turn to conduct (move their arms) in time to the music. Group members may stand at the front and conduct to the group. Vary the tempo of the music for the conductor to imitate/copy. A variation for those more physically limited, the therapist may play a tape of some music, and hand-over-hand move group member's hands and arms.

Song used classical, popular tunes with diffrent tempi