Rhythmic Arts Project - DVD Preview

These video clips contain demonstrations of the various activities involved in the Rythmic Arts Project curriculum, in which drums and other percussion instruments are used as tools to teach cognitive, motor, and life skills and concepts to students with intellectual disabilities, as well as with people in various therapeutic and health care situations including stroke, traumatic brain injury, mental illness, Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Featured in the clips are the creator and instructor, Eddie Tudori, along with students both with and without intellectual disabilities in classroom and home settings.

For more information on the Rhythmic Arts Project, go to www.traponline.com.

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Click here to watch a rhythmic arts activity in which classmates with ID/DD play the drums together, with one student performing a solo.	Click here to watch a demonstration of an activity in which a classroom containing persons with ID/DD alternate playing a drum at different speeds and volumes, cued by where the director places his hands.

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Click here to watch a group of persons with ID/DD learning prepositional concepts and exercising their arms through playing egg shakers.	Click here to watch as a class member demonstrates a Rhythmic activity in which the class performs or stops playing music at her direction, while she enjoys the music and dances enthusiastically in the middle of their circle.

Click here to see how rhythmic activities such as drum playing can be integrated with physical tasks to create a fun obstacle course that can be set up in a classroom setting.

This fact sheet was last updated on 08-16-2007.