Our music-making techniques help to stimulate communication, learning and self-expression, enabling pupils who may be unable to hold an instrument or speak to make their own unique contribution.
- Sound and music is the starting point
- Intensive interaction one to one with profoundly disabled children and young people
- We model and teach a culture of musical communication
- We use resonance boards, soundbeams, musical instruments, sound, silence, voice, music and storytelling
- We facilitate playfulness in order to release staff’s inhibition around music making
- We look at what is the most effective way of working
- We use a range of approaches, suitable for the children and young people, the teachers and the schools
- We exemplify developing relationships – what unfolds, what opens up, what changes from this interaction
We use these techniques in our sessions and share them through our training for parents, educational staff and musicians.