Students who receive special education services have often been excluded from learning to make music at school. Isolated by physical, medical, cognitive, psychological, or behavioral conditions, so many have been left out. But these children benefit from making music in deep and life-changing ways! Please join us to bring down barriers to music participation through training special ed teachers & support staff to play, sing, teach, & lead adaptive music with their exceptional students everyday!
Students with exceptionalities have long deserved inclusion in musical learning. At long last, thanks to you, inclusion is beginning to take place- but students with IEPs and 504s are still being excluded right in these music classrooms because teachers have not had any instruction in accommodating students with disabilities, or neurodivergence. All students with IEPs and 504 plans need inclusive seating, and instruments, and their teachers are asking for adaptive music training and coaching.
This project gives music educators, classroom teachers, special educators, and therapists training, collaboration, tools, and adapted instruments they need to include students with IEPS and 504 medical plans in music. Our free Adaptive Music workshops and courses in Social Emotional Learning through the Power of Song are opening doors to student creativity and improved self expression with percussion, ukulele, guitar, keyboards, vocalizing. The results are miraculous! Please support this effort!
The project is moving the needle in education toward using music to empower and equip students to learn and express themselves more successfully. George (see video) suddenly found his voice with us at age 9. Last year he was the 7th grade validictorian! Teachers who lead adaptive music are showing families, colleagues and administrators how making music adaptively can move students from silence to speech, from wheelchairs to walking, from depression to laughter, and from agression to compassion.
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