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I know that this is supposed to be a site on how to make your own beats, but when I was looking for some new content, I came across this article which I think and hope you will find intersting.. it is about autism and music. Please feel free to comment below…

Music therapy is a beneficial way for children that have developmental disabilities to communicate.  The healing power of music therapy activities enhances good behavior changes.  Each music therapy session is carefully planned, carried out and evaluated on a patient by patient basis.  The sessions can include listening to music, creating music, playing an instrument or just moving to the beat.

Music as therapy has a significant and positive influence on children with autism.   It gives them a chance to experience non-threatening outside stimulation.  Music therapy for children with autism is tailored to the individual – what works with one child may not work with another and therapists understand this well. 

Music therapy sessions improve socio-emotional development.  When children with autism begin to develop relationships, they can ignore or even reject social contact with others.  The therapy helps them to end social withdrawal because the instrument is presented as a intriguing object instead of a threatening one.  It offers an initial point of contact between the child and the therapist which does not exist with other individuals in the child’s life.

Parents understand the unique difficulties of educating children with autism.  Music therapy opens unique doors of communication between the child and his or her world.  The session will stimulate the mental process of comprehending, conceptualizing and symbolizing.  The therapist can use an instrument to build a communicative relationship between the patient’s behavior and a specific sound.  Sounds make it much easier for children with autism to recognize correct and incorrect behaviors, as sounds are simpler to process than verbal exchanges. 

Wind instruments in particular help children with autism communicate.  These instruments make the child aware of the way his or her jaw, teeth, lips and tongue function.  Playing an instrument mirrors many of the functions required for speech vocalizations.

Music therapy sessions also allow children with autism to feel a special kind of emotional fulfillment.  Many of these children lack the ability to respond to stimuli that would otherwise allow them to enjoy emotional changes; however, they respond very well to musical stimuli.  Many music therapists believe this is the case because music provides the child with an emotional environment that is free from fear.  Children with autism are given a safe place to express themselves and learn more about who they actually are.  Children are encouraged to make noise, bang on instruments, shout and jump – anything that lets them freely express themselves and experience satisfaction.

Equally important, music therapy for children with autism teaches social skills.  It improves language comprehension, encourages the desire to communicate and makes creative self-expression possible while it reduces non-communicative speech.  Music therapy has even been shown to decrease echolalia, or uncontrolled instant repetition of words spoken by another person.

Autism is generally discovered in children three years of age or younger, which makes music therapy the perfect treatment.  Children with autism usually have a high aptitude for music and are very talented.  If you have a loved one with autism, consider the benefits of music therapy.  Take advantage of this truly helpful way to communicate with your loved one.  

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Have you ever dreamed of making your own music but thought it might be a little bit too difficult?  Well, it is not as difficult as you might think.  In fact, these days it is totally easy to make your own beats.  Maybe you’re an accomplished rapper and you want to put something together but don’t have the right music or the money to hire someone else to do it. 

Only a couple years back, making your own hip-hop beats usually meant taking several days of recording and professional studio using drum kits and hiring other musicians.  Those days are gone and with some of the very reasonably priced beat making software available today, you can accomplish the same thing in only a few hours.

In fact, you don’t even need a complicated mixers or dance recording devices.  If you have a PC in your house, then you can make your beats online.  Most of the newer programs out there run on the Internet so you don’t even have to download anything to your computer.  Most of these programs have a very large library of instrumental sounds of decent to high-quality. 

Well, you can make your own beats. They also come with a very decent video tutorials and the best part is their price.  You can pick up a membership to one of these programs for as little as $35.  All of them pretty much do the same thing, the difference being in the amount of instrument sounds that they provide.

One of the newer products out on the market is something called DubTurbo and looks pretty complete. You get a very large library of sounds as well as a pretty complete drum machine, sequencer as well as a nice little library of pre-made tracks, pretty good for such a low price, which is about 30 bucks as of this writing. One used to have to spend a lot more money to get something even close to this.

So get out there, pick up a program, and start to make your own beats either for your own enjoyment, or for sale.  You can do it in a ton of fun.