4/23/2017
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Michael Martin
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This school year, one of my students suffered a brain aneurysm in the month of September. Somehow she not only survived, but made a strong recovery, and in January was back at school taking math and band. She is still learning to walk and has very limited use of her right arm. However, as a clarinet player, and without a functioning right arm, she is pretty limited to what she can play. She remembers everything about music, like nothing ever happened, but because of this new limitation, cannot play everything written in her music. We've gotten together and rewrote her parts so she can still participate. She is a super excited about still being about to play in our concerts we had and are going to have here in the next month. In addition, she has also come up with the idea of learning to play French Horn next year in high school since she has a limited range on her clarinet. |