[Menvi-discuss] Your advice for music teachers working with blind and visually impaired students?

[Marc Sabatella]

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.

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.

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?

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!

-- 
Marc Sabatella
marc at outsideshore.com
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