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Helping Students with Visual Impairments Succeed in Band

Helping Students with Visual Impairments Succeed in Band. Levi Thompson EdPsy 390. Music: an elitist class? . Music requires many different skills and functions Teachers can provide accommodations to help students overcome impairments. Research.

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Helping Students with Visual Impairments Succeed in Band

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  1. Helping Students with Visual Impairments Succeed in Band Levi Thompson EdPsy 390

  2. Music: an elitist class? • Music requires many different skills and functions • Teachers can provide accommodations to help students overcome impairments

  3. Research • ‘Exploring the impact of congenital visual impairment on the development of absolute pitch using a new online assessment tool: A preliminary study”’ • ‘Enriching the Ensemble Experience for Students with Visual Impairments’ • ‘Accommodating Band Students with Visual Impairments’

  4. Facts • Students took a pitch identification test • Visually impaired vs. Normal vision • Students with visual impairments performed better • Mean score with normal vision: 8.27 • Mean score with visually impaired: 16.58 • Heightened senses

  5. What Might Be Difficultfor Students?

  6. What Can We Do? • Figure out how functional the student’s vision is • Figure out the type of learners you have • Visual, Auditory, Tactual

  7. Visual • Have some vision, but may have trouble seeing normal print • Enlarge print • Seat student closer to the front

  8. Auditory • Can learn better by listening • Record a certain passage that they need to learn • Direct verbal instruction

  9. Tactual • Student learns through his or her sense of touch • Braille music code • Textured markers on instrument • Student guide

  10. Braille Music Code

  11. All Teachers • Individual attention is key! • Take time to understand each student’s individual needs • Accommodate • Give them the same opportunities as everyone else

  12. Resources • Coates, R. (2012). Accommodating Band Students with Visual Impairments. Music Educators Journal, 99(1), 60-66. • http://www.musicbeginnersguide.com/woodwinds/clarinet • http://www.noticierodigital.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=14540073&sid=f0be022cb3692500b782f295b99ffc00 • http://www.tsbvi.edu/seehear/fall06/music.htm • http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/visually%20impaired • Dimatati, M., Heaton, P., Pring, L., Downing, J., & Ockelford, A. (2012). Exploring the impact of congenital visual impairment on the development of absolute pitch using a new online assessment tool: A preliminary study. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, And Brain, 22(2), 129-133. doi:10.1037/a0030857 • Siligo, W. (2005). Enriching the Ensemble Experience for Students with Visual Impairments. Music Educators Journal, 91(5), 31.

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