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Including Students with Disabilities in Performing Ensembles Christine Lapka

What teachers face as they include students with disabilities: Benefits Challenges

Ideas T P Change What They ___ Adaptive Notation

Soup, Cake, Donuts Figure Notes£35.00, approx. $44.00

http://www.figurenotes.org

Use with other programs

Figurenotes software allows you to take a part written in Sibelius or other notation software and turn it into Figurenotes, and vice versa. You can also export as MIDI and open your creations in programs like GarageBand or Logic

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Dyslexia Fonts-Dyslexie, Open Dyslexic, and Comic Sans This is a sentence using the font, Verdana. This is a sentence using the font, Open Dyslexic. This is a sentence using the font, Times.

Color The colors are trying to overcome any sight problems for people that are not completely blind. In this way people with color blindness can recognize every single color. And people with dyslexia will not have trouble recognizing which is the next musical note. People with purple blindness will not have problems too, because there isn't any gray musical note in the scale, so there isn't any possibility to find two different musical notes with the same color. http://mickji.altervista.org/color-legenda/ Finale Colored Noteheads https://usermanuals.finalemusic.com/Finale2012Win/Content/Finale/Boomwhackers_Tuned_Percussion_Tubes.htm Sibelius Colored Notehead Styles http://www.sibelius.com/download/plugins/index.html?plugin=515

Other ideas for students with dyslexia Font size

Background color - report covers or plastic overlay

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Change What They Do The Skeleton Purchase music with a range of difficulty in the part

http://www.kjos.com/sub_section.php?division=0&series=290

Kjos Multiple Option Scoring

Flute parts from the Festival Ensemble 2 books

 

 

Write your own simplified music

 Electronic Sign Language

Other types of instrumental Ensembles and Music Classes Reverse Inclusion

United Sound, Music Clubs http://www.unitedsound.org/how-does-it-work/ High Five Choir, New Trier High School, Chicago/Winnetka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLkBXfGkF-E Resonaari Center, Helsinki, Finland | Rock Band Experience http://www.kaikkisoittaa.fi/in-english/