Karen,
Musicality is sucb a wonderful underpinning to verbal experience. What would human beings be without the music of words? It would be terrible!
I am wondering if Jon would enjoy hearing you or electronic someones reciting poetry, silly poems or not silly -- such as Robert Frost or W H Auden [something with a beat]. The understanding is not important -- it is the music and the beat! Even if it does not look like he is noticing. I am thinking that for a musical kid like Jon, making lots of room for non utilitarian play with words probably has a big impact. [If you see what I mean!]
I had/have serious learning difficulties. Did not learn to read until I was 12 and writing is an artificial activity that I learned when I learned to type. Fortunately for me, my family was musical. My mother worshipped Mozart to the point that she thought it was rude to walk around when Mozart was being played [on a CD]. Mozart required full attention, and full attention meant being seated -- according to my mother!
Musicality is sucb a wonderful underpinning to verbal experience. What would human beings be without the music of words? It would be terrible!
I am wondering if Jon would enjoy hearing you or electronic someones reciting poetry, silly poems or not silly -- such as Robert Frost or W H Auden [something with a beat]. The understanding is not important -- it is the music and the beat! Even if it does not look like he is noticing. I am thinking that for a musical kid like Jon, making lots of room for non utilitarian play with words probably has a big impact. [If you see what I mean!]
I had/have serious learning difficulties. Did not learn to read until I was 12 and writing is an artificial activity that I learned when I learned to type. Fortunately for me, my family was musical. My mother worshipped Mozart to the point that she thought it was rude to walk around when Mozart was being played [on a CD]. Mozart required full attention, and full attention meant being seated -- according to my mother!