An All Learning Styles Program for Children with:
Dyslexia and Autism Spectrum
and Other Special Education Needs
Highly engaging, amusing, never babyish, the Jazzles program is for developmental ages of 4 upwards with conditions such as:-
- ADD/ADHD
- Dyslexia and Visual Impairment
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Down Syndrome
- Developmental Delays
- Nonverbal Learning Disabilities
- Learning Disability
- Emotional and Behavior Disorders
- Communication Disorder
- Auditory Processing Disorder
- Hearing Disorder
- Language Delay or Disorder
- Comprehension Problems
- Speech Disorder
- Mental Impairment
- Aphasia
For Dyslexia and Autism
Here are a few of the features of Jazzles Voconics that are particularly relevant to children with autism and dyslexia:
- Rich in visuals and subtitle text. Dyslexic and autistic children are often visual thinkers and learners. Jazzles facilitates word-picture associations as well as opportunities to demonstrate abstract concepts such as 'up', 'down', 'hot' etc.
- Song/singing themed.
- Rich in kinesthetic and tactile learning opportunities.
- A-Z themed opportunities for language exercises to promote communication.
- Better than normal Close Captions or subtitles, Jazzles A-Z animations use Matching Captions where the text closely matches the visualization. Synchronization enables children to read the captions, matching the printed words with sung words.
- Enables reading skills to be developed using either phonics and/or whole words.
- Based on themes in the animations, concrete visual methods can be used to cross link other areas of learning. For example there are Beginning Math concepts
that apply the themes and objects in every song animation to demonstrate math and its vocabulary.
- Extensive use of drawing and art.
- Incorporates use of computers and keyboards.
Jazzles provides SPED children with a variety of rich opportunities to achieve a broader learning of literacy by exploring its lyrical texts in depth through directed
themed activities including discussions, drama, dance, drawing, writing and play.
Read All About It!
Click Here to download Lesley Beth's Guide to using Jazzles and unlocking
its secret to engaging every child in play-based Big Picture Literacy and Learning.
Jazzles Voconics capitalizes on the individual strengths of each of your Special Education children by simultaneously activating Visual, Kinesthetic, Auditory and sometimes Tactual Learning
to develop a range of essential cognitive and non-cognitive skills.
Skills include social interaction, oral language, comprehension, early reading, early writing and little life skills.
With Jazzles, you can spend less time catering for individual learning style profiles as the program is so rich in options, that each student will automatically find their most effective learning mode.
Jazzles is BIG on engaging strategies developing children's self-esteem, confidence and social skills.
This includes visual prompts and references to help them understand and master facial expressions, emphatic gestures and descriptive gestures so important for communication.
The core Jazzles benefits for Special Needs children is its richness of music, movement, color, laughter and humor!
There are no babyish words in sight, a feature much appreciated by children with learning delays.
Jazzles features a unique vocabulary teaching component of prolifically alliterative song lyrics developing a language base of 417 different words, all learned
in context (for comprehension) from 26 'song stories' that make sense.
By happily singing along, children rapidly internalize
and activate their oral vocabulary. It is the easiest
of all ways to engage every child, no matter their disability, in practicing and developing all the essential skills for literacy.
Plus you can access millions of dollars of rich, musically themed interactive content you can try for free!
Think of the skill of reading as a jigsaw puzzle. The pieces fall much quicker and easier into place if you first view and continue to have reference to the 'Big Picture'!
And so it is with learning to read the Jazzles way!
How to do it is all in the book! Click here to download.
Unique Combination of Features
Compare these features to what you are using:
- Highly engaging resources and strategies.
- Extensive range of over 500 digital resources.
- All Integrated and Sequential.
- Full of visual-based strategies to aid memory, organize thinking, comprehension, communication and global processing of information.
- Using songs and music to happily stimulate the whole brain, promote attention, engagement and practice, using the catchy rhythms and lyrical repetitiveness to boost recall.
- Daily routines.
- Lots of opportunities for little, daily successes.
- Lots of alliteration to assist memorization and recall of letter-sounds.
- Includes strategies for Global, Tactual and Kinesthetic Learners in Curriculum Areas.
- Lesson Plans emphasizing social and behavioral interaction.
- Wide age applicability because it's never babyish.
The overall impact of these attributes is that Jazzles invariably becomes the preferred learning resource, not only of every SPED student,
but also of REGED. Children literally ask for it over and over!
True Inclusion
The Big Benefit!
The combination of the features above enables Jazzles to accomplish true inclusion of so†䜀甀椀y children in a mixed mainstream class:
- The Gifted
- The Socially Disadvantage
- ESL/ELL
- SPED
- Reluctant Learners
With the budgetary push to include more SPED students in regular classrooms, Jazzles 'Voconics' is a win–win!
Suitable for most developmental ages because the
language used is contemporary – not babyish! See quotes
below.
----- Original Message -----
An Occupational Therapist Writes:
Dear Lesley
"I am Occupational Therapist
working with children with intellectual and physical
disabilities in mainstream and special schools.
Recently I completed a Fine Motor Skills
group with an IO class in a mainstream
school, in which I used your audio and coloring worksheets as a basis.
Each week a song was chosen -
usually involving an animal. From this song we
developed an action song. This was great
for warming up our little people's fingers. From the
coloring book, we developed craft activities that
each week targeted a particular fine motor
action.
The response from the children
was fantastic. Each week they got
involved in the activities and the music and started to
develop and build upon their existing skills. In
addition it was seen to be extremely calming with
the children.
On several occasion we used it as
a background and motivator with great success. The
teacher who we were working with was keen to gain
copies and use it with this group of children due
to the response.
Congratulations on developing
such a useful, valuable and fun package. I will be
using this again with other groups of
children."
Can't wait to help my students sing their way smart!
"As a special ed. teacher, I am always looking for new materials to teach my little ones. Music is so important and one way I have found to get and keep the student's attention. My kids need repetition and when the format stays the same it makes it easier for them to comprehend.
Can't wait to help my students sing their way smart"
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'When children see, laugh, hear, move and sing, they remember everything!'
Are Your Special Education Resources As Visually, Musically, Kinetically and Tactually Engaging?
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1. Animation Example: Blue Bus Blues
Click here to see more examples.
- Visual literacy aids understanding.
- Expressive facial and body language can be seen and interpreted.
- Use the Pause Function to freeze frame for highlighting expressions as well as words.
- Verbal language is practiced by singing.
As in every Jazzles song, social aspects are highlighted. For example:
- Personal responsibility for belongings – how to find lost belongings.
- What to do if you're feeling 'blue'.
- Manners on a bus and etiquette when traveling by bus.
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Click picture to play demonstration video
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Drama, Dance and Mime
Jazzles is rich in ways to practice and learn social and verbal skills.
Children automatically respond kinetically to the rhythmic music of the Jazzles animations providing opportunities to add body percussion and percussion instruments.
Every animation comes with dance routines including creating actions to match the alliterative lyrics as an aid to comprehension.
Drama creates an enjoyable environment for Special Needs children and their Peers to collaborate and negotiate, forming friendships and 'buddy' support.
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Click picture to play demonstration video
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2. Worksheets Aiding Visual Learning
Click here to see 6 examples.
The strength of Jazzles for Special Education is using visual literacy and 'familiar text' as an easier, more engaging entry point for Literacy and Cross – Curricula Learning.
Familiar text is all about building children's confidence in their ability to develop reading skills,
providing every support for successful outcomes rather than 'failure'.
It works like this:
The Jazzles animations engage the child. Words are familiarized by singing along to the animations and following the 'Matching Captions' on screen. Oral language and reading skills, including vocabulary development, are then supported by these integrated literacy – rich Jazzles worksheets and activities
– thematically linked directly to the familiar words and concepts stemming from each animation.
Learning from 'the known' is a wonderful experience for the teacher and especially the Special Needs students! It is a proven, more logical learning method – saving valuable teaching time and frustration spent on boring rote and 'word lists'!
Building Confidence
Special Education students will use their memorization of the Jazzles animations and lyrics as their recallable 'canvas of knowledge'. From this, teachers can easily extend learning, showing children how to transfer and apply what they 'already know' to new reading and writing applications.
If children know the words, particularly in connected text for meaning, they will find any task involving vocabulary and phonological awareness easier than using unfamiliar
words.
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Collectively, these worksheets are designed to use Visual, Auditory, Kinetic, Tactual, even Taste and Smell, to achieve
engaged, memorable, enjoyable learning outcomes!
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Activities and Extensions for Oral Language. See more. Click here.
Jazzles 'Multisensory Collage' applies prolifically rich alliterative oral experiences combined
with a range of multisensory activities. Often these ideas include the senses of smell, touch and,
where possible, taste. It's an activity that increases incidental vocabulary while helping children identify and learn letter shapes, clarify difficult letter shapes (e.g. 'b' and 'd'), understand sound – letter relationships and develop fine motor skills.
This example uses black beans! Extend the concept into talking about healthy foods big on nutrition.
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3. Upper Case Letter Formation Animation
Children always remember the Blue Band characters
performing 'acrobatics' to create the uppercase (capital) letters!
It's a powerful Mnemonic enabling children to learn Capital Letter shapes with ease.
Ask for volunteers to form the shape on the floor. Great fun for everyone
and Kinesthetic learners in particular. Extension activities include writing the uppercase letter B (large) in the air
and on an electronic whiteboard, demonstrating the correct formational order.
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Click picture to play demonstration video
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Plus Talking e–Books and Interactive Games
Hi, I'm Lesley Beth. I'm a kindergarten teacher. I created Jazzles to make learning to read fast, fun and effortless. Please ask me any question about Jazzles and Special Education.
Jazzles for Autism
"This is the kind of program so
hard to find for kids with autism
who are such visual learners,
and also learn through music and
movement.
The music clips, talking books,
puzzles, matching, etc are
what we spend hours making
ourselves (in worksheet form of
course). The kids really respond
well to this format!"
Special Education Teacher
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From the Principal of a Special Education School
"I'm happy to comment on Jazzles for Special Education.
It's a huge hit with my students. I have a class of 6 students with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities. They are probably operating at early stage 1 to stage 2 so this is just exactly what they need. I have an autistic boy who is almost 18 and he wanted it on for most of the day. He loves the music. I'm sure this will be a hit in the special education field.
We've introduced one child to the puzzles section. He enjoys this but won't try a real one. Oh well whatever works! Its also helping him to develop his mouse skills which are poor.
We also use the site daily for one of my students who knows no sounds. I do a sound study for a whole week. I introduce the sound on Monday and he has a reader for that particular sound.
He uses the animation section from Jazzles for that sound on Tuesday. On Wednesday he looks at the Talking Book. On Thursday he is allowed to do a puzzle for the sound and on Friday he colors. On Friday afternoon he has free time and he always chooses Jazzles, looking at the bits he isn't allowed to do during the week. So far he knows 5 sounds without assistance. Not bad for a 10 year old without any reading when he came to me in April 2010 (10 weeks ago)!
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Here are more:
----- Original Message -----
"Hi Lesley
Jazzles is more than I
expected. The music is not geared for just 5
years old. I can used it with my older children as
well. It is very hard to find emergent literacy that is
not too young. My daughter has severe apraxia and parents are
always looking for music that our kids can do. The only CD I have
seen is Time to Sing which is good but for younger
children."
----- Original Message -----
"Good Morning,
Lesley Beth.
The teenage boy I work with loves learning
aurally. He loves the beat and that the songs are
not for "babies".
That is the appeal for him. Otherwise, I couldn't get him to look
at "another" alphabet program.
I wish you much success with your product."
Sincerely, Cathy
----- Original Message -----
From: Maureen
Re: Importance of Repetition
"I am doing an alphabet program with special needs children. I
began at the beginning and I'm spending about two weeks on each
sound.
I am basically bombarding them with anything that has
to do with the sound I can come up with.
So far we have done two
sounds incorporating the Jazzles music. They LOVE it.
And the repetition and rhythm, of "Dirty Dog" helped my PDD student to add
two words together to sing the song. I will let you know as the rest
of the year goes by. THANKS"
----- Original Message -----
From: Sally
Dear Lesley Beth
My son is three years old and has a language delay in so far as he has trouble with the spoken word and
expressing himself. He loves music and this has been one way that I have Guaged to help his development.
The repetition of your songs seems to enable him to learn words easier than from spoken modeling
and he loves it too, which is more than half the battle." Best Wishes Sally
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