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Music in Action

 

Features

Here musicians will bring you a taste of the joy that is music shared!

 

1) Music for young people with profound & multiple disabilities

Excerpts from an article describing early sessions in a nursing home for profoundly disabled children and young adults. The full article was published in the Summer 1996 edition of 'Special Children'. (For an extended account of this project and its evaluation, see our publication, "Music Technology & Curriculum Access",  ISBN: 0 954216 0 6).     
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2) Haslemere:Music Workshops : physical or sensory disabilities 

Weekly sessions for instrumentalists, including beginners.
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3) My Breath My Music 

My Breath My Music is a lively internet resource for people with muscular disabilities who are looking for a way to play wind instruments. It is also a nice way for those who need respiratory therapy to do breathing exercises:
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4) Music & Alzheimer's Disease

Notes for a presentation at 'Music and Alzheimer's disease: past, present and future', an event at Royal Holloway, University of London, 1996

Resourcing Group Work With Music Technology: A Pilot Study

"Earlier this year, I was engaged to run a series of music workshops at an Alzheimer's day centre. I was also asked to make a professional assessment, as to the value and feasibility of involving these clients, regularly, in active music-making..."

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