Making Music with Special Children
Our popular course Making Music with Special Children will help you to find out how music can help you to communicate with children who have life-limiting illness and/or special educational needs. We aim to give you the skills and confidence to make music with children with complex disabilities.
The course is open to anyone working with or caring for children and young people who have additional needs, complex needs, or life-limiting illness, or musicians who would like to develop their skills in this area.
The course will cover:
- Exploring musical instruments
- Working with pulse and rhythm
- Singing
- Using iPads for music
- Approaches to working one-to-one
- Working with groups
The tutors will be Mark Withers a clarinettist and creative project leader for orchestras and other organisations around Europe, delivering music projects for children with a wide range of needs, and training those who work with them, and Cathy Ibberson, an experienced music therapist working in children’s palliative care and other specialist settings.
About the Provider
Jessie's Fund
Jessie’s Fund helps children with additional and complex needs or serious illness to communicate by using music. We work in children's hospices, hospitals and specialist school settings across the UK.
