Author: Graham, Richard M.

Publication Year: 1974

Media Type: Report

Summary:

This publication is made up of contributions from music educators who work directly with exceptional children. It is intended to provide help for the music educator who encounters exceptional children in his regular classes or in special classes but who lacks formal training in special education. It contains chapters dealing with a wide variety of topics. Some emphasize the research literature and furnish a systematic background to a given specialty.

Abstract:

This publication is made up of contributions from music educators who work directly with exceptional children. It is intended to provide help for the music educator who encounters exceptional children in his regular classes or in special classes but who lacks formal training in special education. It contains chapters dealing with a wide variety of topics. Some emphasize the research literature and furnish a systematic background to a given specialty. Others stress more practical aspects and include examples of teaching techniques and descriptions of successful current practice. In accordance with what appears to be increasingly accepted usage, the phrase exceptional child is used here to include not only the handicapped but the gifted as well.

The present volume is the result of a session on Music in Special Education held at the National Biennial Convention of the Music Educators National Conference in Atlanta in 1972. The session was sponsored by the MENC National Commission on Instruction and brought together persons from throughout the nation interested in music for exceptional children. (p. vii)

CONTENTS
Contributors.
Preface.
Special music education by Richard M. Graham.
Music and the speech handicapped by Herbert F. Galloway, Jr.
Music and the hearing impaired by Eleanor M. Edwards.
Music and the hearing handicapped child by Peggy S. Kapla.
Music and the Blind or partially sighted by Richard M. Graham.
Music with the mentally retarded by Donna Cypret.
Music at the coastal center by Roy T. Scoggins, Jr.
Music education of emotionally disturbed children by Richard M. Graham.
Music education for learning disabilities by Mary F. Phipps.
Music for the learning disabed by Betty Welsbacher.
Educating exceptional children through music by Marlene L. Flick.
Music for the gifted by Margery M. Vaughan.
Music for the exceptional child by Sona Nocera.
Bibliographies.
Addenda.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Arts Education