Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Music education resources for special educational needs & disability provision
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A practical, reflective guide helping music educators create meaningful participation, progression and creative choice for learners with a wide range of communication, sensory, physical and cognitive needs.
In summer 2026, Live Music Now joined us for an online event sharing early insights from the AHRC-funded Musical Connections project, exploring how access to high-quality music-making can be expanded for autistic children and young people in Autism Resource Bases.
LIFT Music is the movement-controlled music app, designed to support engagement and learning in schools, particularly within SEND settings. Through simple arm gestures, students control and conduct music in real time, stimulating cognitive engagement and emotional expression.
A list of questions in the SEND reform consultation organised by the type of person they may be relevant to.
Sounds Right is a multimedia resource that is intended to enable teachers, therapists and other music practitioners to celebrate that universal musicality that is inherent in children, young people and adults across the spectrums of ability and need.
Explore our inclusive music education online course, designed for educators and practitioners seeking to create accessible, supportive learning environments. With practical insights and flexible chapters, the course helps you implement inclusive practices in any setting.
This proposal provides a way to embed climate change and nature education into the aims of all subjects in the revised national curriculum. It presents short aims statements across twenty four subject areas which highlight the valuable and distinctive role of each subject to young people’s understanding of and response to the climate and nature crisis.
Music Mark’s podcast dives into important topics and challenges facing the music education sector, speaking to a range of exciting guests and providing you with resources and advice to improve your practice.
Join Aurora Orchestra on a journey to explore Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, singing and performing, composition and the interrelated dimensions of music. This resource, for KS2 and SEND settings, explores the relationship between music and emotions and includes a beautiful animated film.
The aim of the library is for every young person to have an instrument that meets their interests, abilities and needs, and for teachers to be able to use it effectively in both curriculum and instrumental teaching contexts.
