Thomas Brown
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9/6/2022
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Thomas Brown
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I had a visually impaired band student. He was independent and moved around quire well as he was not totally blind. As young people are inclined to do, his fellow students nick named him 'Twenty' (short for 20-20). He relished the name and seemed motivated by it to play/read music well. I had to discourage him however from using his partial blindness as a way to get excused from learning his music. I allowed him to place his face very close to his sheet music; as a result he read the applied sight reading lessons very well, and became one of the top music reading performers with few problems. |