4/26/2020
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Adren Hance Jr
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My student in Beginning 6th grade band is profoundly deaf. His disability creates many challenges for his opportunity to learn in my class. One way he is challenged is aural communication. "Diamond Boy" (his signed nickname) also has difficulty phonating or forced speaking which makes his communications difficult without help. Although he is provided with an interpreter, I am concerned with his social interactions with his peers. A possible stigma and misunderstanding of his deafness by his classmates is a big challenge as well.
Diamond Boy chose the Tuba! The deafness does make it challenging for him to perceive a quality sound (or have background knowledge of any sound). After his successful performance phase of student-centered performance, the difficulty of an ensemble-centered performance is next. We helped meet this challenge by building a large hollow platform on which he sat WITH the snare and bass drum. Diamond Boy could feel the bass in his feet, the snare through his seat, AND the vibration of the entire ensemble. |
4/28/2020
Topic:
Tools and Strategies
Adren Hance Jr
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Administrator wrote:
Choose One(1):
- Option 1: Describe how two of the strategies discussed could potentially be implemented in your music classroom. Be sure to identify the two strategies by name, and describe how they could be used to address the student's disability. Share your response in the threaded discussion.
- Option 2: Describe at least one way you have used technology to meet the needs of a student with a disability in your music classroom. Be sure to identify or describe the specific technology and the student's disability. Share your response in the threaded discussion.
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4/28/2020
Topic:
Tools and Strategies
Adren Hance Jr
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My student is visually impaired. His playing position for the trombone was such that he could not physically get close enough to the music to be able to see. Together with his therapist we experimented on several technological devices that helped. The one that was the best magnified the notation large enough and in a field of vision that allowed my student to sit properly and perform fast enough reading capability that he was successful. My best description of the graphic magnifier is a large screen suspended at seated head level with the trombone slide underneath the screen. |
4/28/2020
Topic:
Tools and Strategies
Adren Hance Jr
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My student is visually impaired. His playing position for the trombone was such that he could not physically get close enough to the music to be able to see. Together with his therapist we experimented on several technological devices that helped. The one that was the best magnified the notation large enough and in a field of vision that allowed my student to sit properly and perform fast enough reading capability that he was successful. My best description of the graphic magnifier is a large screen suspended at seated head level with the trombone slide underneath the screen. |
4/28/2020
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Adren Hance Jr
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When my Band student was taking written tests in my class, I was pleased he had the following accommodations; extended time, and oral response. His thoughts and ideas were brilliant but, when tasked with communicating in written form he was unable to cohesively form a sentence. The extended time also allowed him to relax and not focus on not focusing! |