Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs

<p><em>Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Practical Resource b</em>rings together theory policy and planning for instruction in K-12 classrooms. The resource is a result of collaboration between K-12 teachers outstanding undergraduate and graduate music education students and professionals in the field. The lesson ideas lesson plans and unit plans are organized according to the six domains posited by Alice Hammel and Ryan Hourigan in their book <em>Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Label-free Approach Second Edition. </em>This book equips music educators with understanding necessary to implement teaching ideas into the domains of cognition communication behavior emotions and physical and sensory needs. Classroom-tested lesson plans include procedure outlines and assessments as well as guides for adaptation accommodation and modification needed for successful implementation in K-12 classrooms. As such this eminently useful guide provides teachers with enough practical ideas to allow them to begin to create and adapt their own lesson plans for use with students of differing needs and abilities.</p>