He Is, She Is
Music Therapy “he” & “she” pronoun videos & songs for special needs individuals.
Goal 1: Client will use “he” & “she” pronouns in response to photographs after being prompted with the person’s age & gender: (boy, girl, man, woman).
Goal 2: Client will determine a person’s age & gender (boy, girl, man, woman) in response to photographs.
Goal 3: Client will determine a person’s emotional state (happy, mad, sad) in response to photographs.
Domains: Language, Speech
How do we tell the difference between female and male? or young and old? The internet has a wealth of information on this (mostly commonly found on plastic surgeons’ websites), but for special needs individuals I think the best way is practice.
Each song/video begins the same – with lyrics and text explaining the usage of “he” and “she” pronouns.
For a boy or a man say he.
For a girl or a woman say she.
This is followed by a photograph and vocals that state the person’s age, gender, and emotional state.
The (boy, girl, man, woman) is (happy, mad, sad).
With the same photograph on the screen, the vocals then change the noun (boy, girl, man, woman) into a pronoun: (he, she).
(He, She) is (happy, mad, sad).
The process is repeated for three more photographs and the song/video concludes by repeating the initial text and lyrics.
Each video is provided in three versions: teaching, prompt, and testing. The teaching videos are a model for students new to the activity as I sing all of the answers. The prompt videos provide sung vocals stating the person’s age, gender, and emotional state and the student must choose the appropriate pronoun. The testing videos challenge a student to identify a person’s age, gender, emotional state, and pronoun.
The project contains 24 photographs of 8 people – three photos (happy, mad, sad) of each person. Most of my videos use SymbolStix visuals, but in this case I thought actual photographs would be more helpful. Determining a person’s emotional state is not the primary (or even secondary) goal of this project, but I figured providing multiple photographs of each person would be helpful – as in real life people’s faces change depending on their moods.
Most videos just focus on one emotion – four people who are all happy, mad, or sad. Emotion words were used to address speech – so that students would be required to answer using complete sentences: noun/pronoun + verb + emotion. If you want to focus on the identification of emotions, you can use the “Various” videos (which contain multiple emotions in each video), use the song He Is, She Is (testing) along with a mixture of the photographs provided or even novel pictures from books or newspapers, or check out These Are Emotions.
Download includes:
- 24 videos [mp4 video files]
- He Is, She Is Happy 1 (teaching)
- He Is, She Is Happy 1 (prompt)
- He Is, She Is Happy 1 (testing)
- He Is, She Is Mad 1 (teaching)
- He Is, She Is Mad 1 (prompt)
- He Is, She Is Mad 1 (testing)
- He Is, She Is Sad 1 (teaching)
- He Is, She Is Sad 1 (prompt)
- He Is, She Is Sad 1 (testing)
- He Is, She Is Various 1 (teaching)
- He Is, She Is Various 1 (prompt)
- He Is, She Is Various 1 (testing)
- He Is, She Is Happy 2 (teaching)
- He Is, She Is Happy 2 (prompt)
- He Is, She Is Happy 2 (testing)
- He Is, She Is Mad 2 (teaching)
- He Is, She Is Mad 2 (prompt)
- He Is, She Is Mad 2 (testing)
- He Is, She Is Sad 2 (teaching)
- He Is, She Is Sad 2 (prompt)
- He Is, She Is Sad 2 (testing)
- He Is, She Is Various 2 (teaching)
- He Is, She Is Various 2 (prompt)
- He Is, She Is Various 2 (testing)
- 17 songs [mp3 audio files]
- He Is, She Is Happy 1 (teaching)
- He Is, She Is Happy 1 (prompt)
- He Is, She Is Mad 1 (teaching)
- He Is, She Is Mad 1 (prompt)
- He Is, She Is Sad 1 (teaching)
- He Is, She Is Sad 1 (prompt)
- He Is, She Is Various 1 (teaching)
- He Is, She Is Various 1 (prompt)
- He Is, She Is Happy 2 (teaching)
- He Is, She Is Happy 2 (prompt)
- He Is, She Is Mad 2 (teaching)
- He Is, She Is Mad 2 (prompt)
- He Is, She Is Sad 2 (teaching)
- He Is, She Is Sad 2 (prompt)
- He Is, She Is Various 2 (teaching)
- He Is, She Is Various 2 (prompt)
- He Is, She Is (testing)
- 8 lyrics [PDF]
- He Is, She Is Happy 1
- He Is, She Is Mad 1
- He Is, She Is Sad 1
- He Is, She Is Various 1
- He Is, She Is Happy 2
- He Is, She Is Mad 2
- He Is, She Is Sad 2
- He Is, She Is Various 2
- 8 lyrics & chords [PDF]
- He Is, She Is Happy 1
- He Is, She Is Mad 1
- He Is, She Is Sad 1
- He Is, She Is Various 1
- He Is, She Is Happy 2
- He Is, She Is Mad 2
- He Is, She Is Sad 2
- He Is, She Is Various 2
- 24 photos [jpeg]
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