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Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Music education resources for special educational needs & disability provision


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Each year ABRSM examines candidates with a huge range of different needs and abilities. Because our candidates’ needs differ so widely we treat each person individually, considering their needs in terms of physical access to the exam room.

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Musical creativity gives powerful, validating, multi-sensory & kinaesthetic experiences to children with SEN. ABC Music for SEN helps you make these experiences available to all your children, everyday, involving all your staff.

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BBC Ten Pieces

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Launched in 2014, the BBC’s Ten Pieces is an ambitious initiative for school pupils, which aims to open up the world of classical music using ten pieces of music as a spring-board for learning.

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Compelling evidence for the benefits of music education are revealed in a new research review by internationally renowned Professor Susan Hallam MBE, UCL Institute of Education.

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Explore free, downloadable materials for using English traditional folk song, music, dance, drama and other arts in your teaching and learning. Resources are suitable for use in formal and informal settings.

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Drake Music, one of Youth Music’s strategic partners, have shared their expertise on music-making with disabled young people, in a new version of our reflective practice tool.

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This resource from the National Deaf Children’s Society is an excellent guide that will help music professionals develop confidence in supporting the music education of deaf children and young people.

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Evidence of the impact of music education – all in one place. We collect, summarise and share the latest research and evidence, to make it easier for everyone who cares about music education to understand the benefits and advocate them.

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Music Mark brought together colleagues from a range of education organisations to consider the production of some brief guidance for schools and music education hubs on how music in schools might be further developed and improved.

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