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How Do You Teach Music To Visually Impaired Children?

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How Do You Teach Music To Visually Impaired Children?

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While it is often the case that visual impairment can close some doors, the path to a life in music should not be one of them. Though factors like printed sheet music and a teaching tradition based in techniques that often take advantage of sight, a visually impaired music student can, with the proper guidance from a devoted teacher, work around these obstacles to follow either an amateur or a professional calling in the musical arts. Keep appropriate careers in mind. If your student starts to show significant progress and interest in music, you’ll want to help her on the path to a career that she can succeed in as someone who is visually impaired. This will largely mean steering her away from careers that require sight-reading music on the spot (such as studio music and short-call freelance instrumental gigging) and towards careers where it’s more acceptable to learn by ear, such as jazz and vocal music. Recreate your student’s experience in your own practice time. Practice the instru

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