Social Pragmatics and the tone (the attitude ) of a sentence is frequently a mystery to student who are on the autism scale. Was speaking to a young teacher who was working with children on the this spectrum. We discussed the challenges of teaching them to comprehend “the tone” of a sentence, identifying whether the string of words were spoken in a sarcastic, patronizing, a questioning or hostile way. Had an “aha”moment when I connected using notes on a piano to simulate the pace, inflection, and pitch of each word in a sentence. Since music is left brained, I wondered if it would support spectrum kids to “get” the meaning in that way. There is a chapter on Tone in the Book Cognitive Yoga. What do you think? Would this work?
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