Teaching a student with Down's Syndrome

Hi Michiko.

Thank you once more for the inspiring week in Aalborg.

As I told you, I needed the inspiration from you to discover (once again) that there is a reason why you have made the games up in an specific order. Just now I am practising the order of the games and translating the games to Danish. It´s really a good way of learning.

Last week I worked at a camp for handicapped children. I was inspired from the Unit 1 course in Aalborg (Denmark) and brought my Puppy Packet. We were two grown-ups taking care of four children. One of the boys - Nis - was a 17-year old boy with Downs Syndrome. One day I was practicing Music Mind Games and he came and sat down besides me. We started playing Fat Snake, Fix the order, What´s missing and Snake. We had a really good time playing these games. I will attach a couple of pictures where Nis is building a Fat Snake.

Have a nice summer!
Carsten Viuf (violinviuf@yahoo.dk)