Sounding Out
A toolkit for music practitioners working with deaf students
Dr. Kathryn Mason
Tiziana Pozzo
This Toolkit is a free resource for music practitioners and teachers working with deaf children. It has been designed following a 3 year Creative Futures project called ‘Sounding Out’, funded by the National Foundation for Youth Music, which involved working with deaf children in both primary and secondary schools.
Through this Toolkit we hope to inspire music practitioners and teachers to be bold in their music delivery with deaf children, and to ensure that deaf children have as much access to music and music-making as other children and young people.
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"Our data suggests that the Sounding Out programme has been a success musically, with clear evidence of virtually all pupils achieving more advanced musical behaviours as their academic year progressed. This is very commendable and provides a solid evidential foundation from which to argue that all deaf pupils should have access to appropriate music education provision, whether in Primary or Secondary schools to support learning in and through music."
(Professor Graham Welch & Dr Jo Saunders, UCL Institute of Education, 2018)
SUPPORT AND TRAINING
If you would be interested in receiving any training or professional development linked to this Toolkit, in order to support you or your staff in the delivery of music-making for deaf children, please contact us and we will be happy to discuss a bespoke training package for you.
