Avoiding Skill Slide During the Break
It is almost time for my Winter Break, and today, I am going to talk about Skill Slide. This is a term that I just made up to describe the phenomenon that happens when you take time away from something that you've made a habit in your life, and for me, it encompasses the things that I have to as a music therapist each and every day. Things like playing the guitar and piano, singing with appropriate breath support, writing music, writing Therapeutic Music Experiences, and coming up with visual aids for use in my clinic. Skill Slide is very real and is often not experienced until you walk back into the music therapy routine and find that your fingers hurt after one session of guitar playing. Or you can't seem to get the frog out of your throat during your opening song. Does that ever happen to anyone else?? When I was an intern, we used to take data on specific goals related to behavior indications before and after every break to track just this type of situation. We di...