The middle and high school aged students that I teach may face severe physical and/or academic challenges - but with your help those challenges won't stop them from participating in a band or a chorus.
As part of my music program I direct a bucket drum band, a chorus, and I co-direct a percussion band. In addition I teach guitar and general music. Many of the students are unable to participate in the conventional way due to physical, language or intellectual disabilities; with the right resources, that will not stop them from being part of our performing groups.
If we receive additional Big Macks I can program musical chords, melodic lines, individual tones, drumbeats, phrases and/or words. The appropriate picture symbol would be velcro-ed onto the device. All the student would have to do is strike the device and he would then "strike a chord."
These devices would be used during my general music classes as well as with my performing groups.
I teach in a New York public school which faces the same funding issues as so many other programs. So many students want to participate in our various performing groups - and in the activities in my general music classes - and without additional devices they cannot benefit as much as we or they would like. The Boardmaker communication software program is a terrific program - but expensive -- and due to licensing restrictions use may be limited to individual computers.
Please help more of our students "strike a chord" by enabling more of them to use communication devices and by enabling me to print the picture symbols that would be used with them.
Thank you.
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