Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Music education resources for special educational needs & disability provision
All Resources
Face-to-face or online training and a series of online film resources from a variety of real life group music activities which demonstrate the key facets of musical potential as identified by primary and secondary class teachers, peripatetics, community musicians, music services and other arts organisations.
ABRSM’s Making Music is a longitudinal series of reports tracking trends in music education over the last three decades. It provides the music education sector with data we can all use to promote the value and importance of music and insight into the needs of teachers and learners.
In this resource we have compiled resources and additional information relating to the National Plan for Music Education 2022: The Power of Music to Change Lives.
Recordings and resources from our webinar series with Musicians Without Borders.
The Department for Education’s 2021 Model Music Curriculum (MMC) supports curriculum music in schools during Key Stages 1, 2 and 3. The curriculum development was teacher led, with input from leading musicians and education sector bodies.
Resources appropriate for D/deaf/F children.
Youth music charity Orchestras for All (OFA) has two online training course designed to develop skills in effectively leading an inclusive music ensemble.
A Short Guide to Working Inclusively Through Music is a helpful guide commissioned by MAC Makes Music for any music practitioner or teacher working with children and young people.
A practical toolkit of inclusive approaches for music making with deaf and hearing impaired children and young people. Developed by SoundLincs, it contains information, activities, advice and resources to support inclusive music delivery.
This toolkit and training resource was commissioned by Music Education Hubs and developed by SoundLincs and Nottingham Trent University following practitioner led research to explore music-making and singing approaches for whole class teaching in SEND schools.












