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Margie La Bella draws upon her more than twenty-three years of experience and expertise as a music therapist working with children having speech and language/communication challenges due to autism and other learning difficulties to develop and produce four outstanding music CDs designed to stimulate cognitive development. Superbly recorded productions enhanced with the utilization of rhymes incorporated with pop, jazz, folk, rap, swing, reggae, and world music styles, this creative and innovative series includes "Move" (focusing on receptive language skills necessary to understand directions); "Sing" (emphasizing expressive language), "Play" (employing simple rhythm instruments, body percussion, and movement promoting auditory discrimination and processing); "Mixing It Up" (incorporating moving, singing, and playing). Of special note is a fifth "Sampler" CD featuring two songs from each of the four CDs comprising this superbly designed and presented series and is ideal for introducing the Margie La Bella's performance and the quality of what she has created with CD music albums specifically to be used to motivate children to 'move, sing, play along and learn'. Ideal for use by parents, teachers, and healthcare professionals working with speech and language challenged children preschool through second grade, and available individually, school and community libraries would be well advised to acquire the entire four CD series for the benefit of their students and patrons. It should be noted that individual tunes, as well as entire albums can also be downloaded in an MP3 format.