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Subject: teaching music to dyslexsics
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Posted: 13 Mar 2003 15:35 PST
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Looking for any info on teaching music to dyslexsics.
will accept 'no info avialable' but please look hard.
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Subject: Re: teaching music to dyslexsics
Answered By: websearcher-ga on 13 Mar 2003 16:00 PST
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Hi depaul: 

I have found the following information for you on teaching music to
dyslexics:


Websites:

Music and Dyslexia 
URL: http://www.resourceroom.net/Sharestrats/IDAmusic.asp
Excerpt: "If individuals with dyslexia have difficulties with literacy
skills, they might also have problems with musical notation, even
though they may have a good musical ear and a good sense of melody and
harmony. In many families, the first chosen instrument is the piano.
For the first year of lessons, all is well and the piano performances
are enjoyed by all. Then there is a reluctance and finally a refusal
to continue. Why?"

Dyslexia, Timing and Music
URL: http://www.bdainternationalconference.org/presentations/wed_s2_d_6.htm
Excerpt: "Singing is a natural way of slowing down speech sounds and
practising articulatory gestures, and also provides an excellent
medium in which to focus on phonological skills such as rhyming and
segmentation. Music training can also be used as a multi-sensory
medium for the development of timing skills, in which a strong
emphasis can be placed on analytical listening and accurate motor
skills. Thus, it is hypothesised that music training could provide a
valuable support activity in the remediation of dyslexia."

How Dyslexia Affects Musicians
URL: http://www.bdainternationalconference.org/presentations/sat_s5_b_5.htm
Excerpt: "This paper takes the symbol- recognition and short term
memory aspects of dyslexia into the music reading arena, and shows how
attendant problems of 'time to work it out' and 'camouflaging
difficulties' affects practice and performance for both pupils and
professionals. There is recognition that several aspects of music's
own organisation-instrument construction, traditions of notation,
foreign language instructions- do not help. At the same time,
dyslexics are the beneficiaries of a move away from notation-dominated
music participation. Their creative and improvisatory skills can come
to the fore, and new technology assists in the logging of
compositions. Many strategies are offered and the views and
experiences of both young and established professional musicians and
teachers, are relayed."

Scheme of Work
URL: http://www.jsavage.org.uk/classroomresearch/cloherty/clohertysow.pdf
Excerpt: "For my own research into music and dyslexia, I wanted to
investigate ways in which problems caused by dyslexia can be overcome
in a mixed ability music classroom. So the scheme of work that I
taught is one that I had already planned to teach to year 7, putting
the research into context. The scheme of work (appendix 2) is based on
representation: in this case, a four week project about how music can
be used to represent animals. I concentrated on one year 7 class for
the purposes of this research. In this class, there were three pupils
with varying degrees of dyslexia."

INSTRUMENTAL TEACHING WITH THE DYSLEXIC PUPIL IN MIND
URL: http://www.greenwold.freeserve.co.uk/2music.htm
Excerpt: "As the field of dyslexia widens to include numerical as well
as literacy skills, there is now growing evidence to suggest that
musical potential may be slow to emerge in the dyslexic student too. A
pupil who has a Specific Learning Difficulty (dyslexia) will
experience a combination of problems unique to himself or herself.
However, there are some well known problems which are often shared and
what follows is a description of these conditions as they may affect
the pupil in a musical situation. The article finishes with a series
of practical suggestions which have been used and developed over a
long period and which have contributed to many dyslexic pupils
achieving considerable success."


Books: 

Music and Dyslexia: Opening New Doors
URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861562055/qid%3D1047598886/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-3321825-5700703
Description: "It is now recognized that dyslexia affects people1s
lives in all sorts of different ways. This book shows how some
dyslexics can be highly gifted musicians. It is important, however,
that they should not be put off from studying music just because - at
least in the early stages - many of them find it difficult to read and
remember the symbols of musical notation. The foreword is by Baroness
Mary Warnock. 10 of the 21 contributors to the book are themselves
dyslexic. Each relates their personal experiences (whether as amateurs
or professionals) and in most cases of their eventual success. The
other contributors are teachers or researchers who have wide
experiences of dyslexic musicians of all ages. The book's message is
one of optimism. Dyslexic musicians can succeed provided only that
they are given sufficient encouragement and understanding."

Instrumental Music for Dyslexics: A Teaching Handbook
URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1861562918/qid=1047599067/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-3321825-5700703?v=glance&s=books
Description: "Instrumental Music for Dyslexics is written mainly for
music teachers. It describes dyslexia in layman's terms and explains
how the various problems that a dyslexic may have can affect all
aspects of learning to play a musical instrument. It alerts the music
teacher with a problem pupil to the possibilities of that pupil having
some form of dyslexia. It offers suggestions as to how to teach
dyslexics, with particular reference to piano teaching, and it
suggests ways in which the music teacher may contribute to the welfare
of the dyslexic pupil. The book will also be of interest to dyslexia
specialists who have hitherto directed their concentration towards the
language-based problems of the dyslexic. It is hoped that it will
provoke wider research into kinesthetic problems and their
relationship with the much-researched visual and auditory problems."


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