Ockelford, Adam - Music for Children and Young People with Complex Needs

There are around 40,000 children and young people in the UK alone with severe or profound and multiple learning difficulties, yet despite the widely held belief that music is beneficial, provision is at best patchy. This book aims to foster progress in this young discipline by identifying key issues and providing practical advice for practitioners.

CONTENTS

• Part I: Issues
• Promises, promises
• All in the mind?
• Levels of uncertainty
• Part II: A new model
• Making sense of music making sense
• Part III: Addressing special musical needs
• Sounds of Intent
• Music moves
• About music
• Part IV: Identifying and fostering special musical abilities
• Focus on Music
• Influential measures
• Fragments of genius
• Conclusion