Benefits and Areas of Use

The Laulau® Learning Methods can be applied in a wide range of educational and therapeutic contexts. They offer creative, inclusive, and play-based tools for supporting children’s holistic growth and learning.

Benefits

Social

Strengthens children’s ability to connect, communicate and learn together. Supports collaboration, turn-taking, appreciation of others, and respect for diversity. Nurtures early interaction skills in a warm and inclusive way.

Emotional

Offers children safe and creative ways to express, process and regulate emotions. Provides inclusive ways to participate, and helps build self-efficacy, confidence and a sense of well-being through positive, encouraging learning experiences.

Cognitive

Enhances concentration, attention, memory and listening skills, and supports thinking and reasoning. Strengthens early learning in areas such as mathematics, natural sciences, and cultural awareness in a playful and meaningful way.

Linguistic

Enriches children’s language development through active, multisensory and interactive learning. Supports vocabulary development, comprehension, speech production, articulation, auditory skills, storytelling, communicative language use and early literacy skills.

Physical

Encourages children to use their bodies in versatile and purposeful ways. Supports gross motor skills, participation in games and movement, and crossing the body’s midline. Enhances fine motor skills, drawing, eye-hand coordination, and sensory integration.

Creative

Opens rich possibilities for learning about and through music and the arts. Children engage with songs, rhymes, musical play, instrument play, dance and movement, while also exploring visual expression, colours, shapes, creativity, imagination, storytelling and drama.

The Laulau Learning methods and contents are widely used, for example, in

Early Childhood & Pre-Primary Education

As holistic and playful learning approaches supporting cross-curricular learning, interaction and inclusion

As engaging tools in the daily pedagogy and situations to support well-being, structure and social interaction.

Primary Education 

As support for artistic learning and creative expression

As a builder of group bonding and a sense of togetherness

As a holistic and inclusive work method to strengthen children’s engagement and learning in subjects like English (or Finnish, Swedish, Chinese) as second language, maths, natural sciences, first language and literature, social-emotional learning, music, visual arts, physical education

Early Childhood Music & Arts Education

As an engaging and integrative process tool in early childhood music and art classes

As an inclusive and art-based content as part of a school’s extracurricular activities

Special Education & Rehabilitation

As creative and inclusive work approaches in special education and early childhood special education to support children with special needs and learning difficulties

As an engaging tool in speech therapy for building skills in communication, interaction, language and speech production

As a holistic and interactive work method in occupational therapy to support fine and gross motor skills, concentration, self-regulation, coordination and working skills

As a therapeutic and integrative musical tool in music therapy to support early interaction skills, self-expression, multi-sensory work, and emotional well-being of a child

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