The Daily Blog 5/02/2009

by Kimberly on May 4, 2009 · 2 comments

All three of these links are related to the story of Snowball, the parrot who “dances” to music. This research has some interesting implications for understanding how and why rhythm influences movement patterns: gross motor, fine motor, and speech production.

1) Scientists: Some animals able to “dance” to music

2) Remarkable dancing birds: A cure for Parkinson’s

  • This one includes the YouTube video. Watch it. It’s hysterical!

3) Birds can dance, really

And for those music therapists who work with speech and language disorders, this blog link is for you:

Protocol evaluation for effective music therapy for persons with nonfluent aphasia

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Philip August 30, 2013 at 6:09 am

Very energetic post, I enjoyed that a lot.

Will there be a part 2?

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