<div dir="auto">Hi,</div><div dir="auto">I’m a music teacher of students who are blind and mainly work with Braille music notation. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Happy to chat if I can be of any help?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Lee (Australia)</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 7:09 am, Marc Sabatella <<a href="mailto:marc@outsideshore.com">marc@outsideshore.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi! I'm doing a presentation for NAfME - the National Association for Music Education - in a couple of weeks, and I've love to get your input.<div><br></div><div>The title of the presentation is "Teaching Music to Blind and Visually Impaired Students", and the audience is mostly grade school music teachers plus high school choir and band directors. My wife - an elementary school music teacher herself - is co-presenting with me.</div><div><br></div><div>For those who you who have taught or been taught in that environment, what are some things you think it especially important for me to talk about? What would you want a music teacher who may never have worked with a blind music student to know?<br></div><div><br></div><div>My own experience is mostly in the university area, teaching music theory specifically, and I have plenty of information I've gathered over the years on various tools and techniques that make sense in that world. Much of my presentation will be focused on sharing what I have learned about communicating using different forms of notated music. But I also know I have little experience teaching elementary general music or what unique challenges might come up in that environment. Luckily, my wife has lots of experience in that world, but little of it with blind or visually impaired students. Hopefully between all of us, I can find the right 55 minutes of material to cover!</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Marc Sabatella<br><a href="mailto:marc@outsideshore.com" target="_blank">marc@outsideshore.com</a><br></div></div></div></div>
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