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

[Terri Weaver]

Hi Marc...
I teach private piano... this year 20 years.  My first blind student found me last year, her name is Ashley.  She is doing well... but not reading braille music.  Her braille teacher suggested - NO to learning this and her mom respects her braille teacher.  
If you would like to discuss what we learned together, please call 610-202-3576.  If you text in the morning about possible times, I may not be working.  My schedule is all over the map between 3 part-time jobs.

Thank you!
Warm regards,Terri Weaver


 

    On Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 04:09:41 PM EST, Marc Sabatella <marc at outsideshore.com> wrote:  
 
 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!
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Marc Sabatella
marc at outsideshore.com
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