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Making Music with Special Children

  • 29th and 30th September 2026
  • 10:00 - 17:00
  • LSO St Luke's, London, EC1V 9NG

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 and 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: whether you’re a musical novice or have some experience you will go away with plenty of ideas and techniques to put into practice in your work. We aim to give you the skills and confidence to make music with children with complex needs in a range of settings, and working 1:1 or in small groups.

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 Vicky Kammin, an experienced music therapist working in children’s palliative care, research and university settings.

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£95 for both days including refreshments and a light lunch.

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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.

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