Play the ‘copy game’ with me using vision and touch as well as sound

Seeing or feeling what is happening may help me to understand imitation in sound

When you copy me using your voice, make sure I can see you as well as hear you, or feel your lips as you imitate my vocal sounds
When you make a sound with your voice for me to copy, exaggerate the movements of your lips, teeth and tongue, so I may get a better sense of what is going on, or, if I can’t see very well, put my hands on your mouth so I can feel what is happening
The copy game with soundmakers can be particularly effective when I’m lying on a resonance board (or other resonant surface like a wooden table), so I can feel the vibrations that we are both making as well as hear the sounds
Visually stimulating instruments like clear plastic rainsticks with beads can be a good way to get copying going, as the beads move gradually,and I have time to work out what is happening