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Music Education: Specialized Needs

Resources for researching music education for students with specialized needs.

Browse the Stacks!

Use call number ranges to browse the physical collection:

LC4001-LC4806.5 Children & youth with disabilities. Learning disabled children & youth
ML3830 Psychology of Music
ML3920-ML3930 Literature on music for children (juvenile literature)
MT1 Theory of musical instruction
MT17 Music in Special Education

Select Print Resources

Retrieve these resources from the Music Library Stacks:

Autism

The use of the creative therapies with autism spectrum disorders by Brooke, Stephanie L
Call Number: RC553.A88 U84 2009
Playing, laughing and learning with children on the autism spectrum : a practical resource of play ideas for parents and carers by Moor, Julia
Call Number: RJ506.A9 M66 2008
Music Therapy for the Autistic Child by Alvin, Juliette
Call Number: MT17.A48 1991

General Books

Integrated Curriculum and Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Birth to Age Eight by Hart, C.
Call Number: HODGES LB1139.4.I58 1997
Special Education: Music Therapy by Sharma, M.
Call Number: ML3919.S53 1996
Music Therapy in Principle and Practice by Michel, Donald E.
Call Number: ML3920 .M483 2005
Teaching Music to the Exceptional Child: A Handbook for Mainstreaming by Graham, R.
Call Number: MT1.G78
Methods & Perspectives in Urban Music Education by Hicks, C.
Call Number: MT1.M46 1983
Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education by Anderson, W.
Call Number: MT1.M93 1996
Music for the Exceptional Child by Graham, R.
Call Number: MT3.U5M96
Readings on diversity, inclusion, and music for all by MENC
Call Number: MT3.U5 R42 2003
The Orff Music Therapy: Active Furthering of the Development of the Child by Orff, Gertrud
Call Number: MT17.O713 1980
Contemporary music education by Mark, Michael
Call Number: MT3.U5 M32 1986
Healing the inner city child : creative arts therapies with at-risk youth by Camilleri, Vanessa A.
Call Number: RJ505.A7 H43 2007
Music therapy with adults with learning difficulties by Watson, Tessa
Call Number: ML3920 .M89965 2007
The handbook of music therapy by Bunt, Leslie
Call Number: ML3920 .H266 2002
Music Lessons for Children with Special Needs by Perry, T.
Call Number: MT17.P47 1995
Accentuate the positive! : expressive arts for children with disabilities by Herman, Fran
Call Number: LC4025 .H47 1988
Sounding off : theorizing disability in music by Lerner, Neil William
Call Number: ML3920 .S728 2006
Pediatric music therapy by Lathom, Wanda
Call Number: ML3920 .L38 2002
Musical experience in our lives : things we learn and meanings we make by Kerchner, Jody L.
Call Number: MT6 .M9628 2009
An Attitude and Approach for Teaching Music to Special Learners by Sobol, Elise S.
Call Number: MT17.S63 2001

Gifted

Accelerated Programs for the Gifted Music Student by Jankowski, P.
Call Number: MT3.U5J3

Hearing Impaired

Music Education for the Deaf by Edwards, E.
Call Number: MT1.E345M9
Music for the hearing impaired : a resource manual and curriculum guide by Robbins, Carol
Call Number: MT17.R62 1980

Physically Disabled

Music Services for Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals
Call Number: LC 19.15:M 97
(Online government document)

Visually Impaired

Music Services for Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals
Online government document
How to Read Braille Music: Book I, Vocal and Instrumental by Krolick, B.
Call Number: MT38.K76
Dictionary of Braille Music Signs by Krolick, B.
Call Number: MT38.K762

Subject Headings

Use Subject Headings to help you locate items in the online catalog:

CONCERTOS (PIANO) BLIND, MUSIC FOR THE
MUSIC–PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS
MUSIC–PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECT
MUSIC–PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS
MUSIC, INFLUENCE OF
MUSIC THERAPY
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
THERAPEUTICS, PHYSIOLOGICAL

Reference Books

Retrieve these resources from the Music Library Reference Section:

Musical America: International Directory of the Performing Arts
Call Number: Ref. ML13.M83
(Provides a comprehensive list of music schools, summer music camps, music festivals, competitions, performance venues, and scholarship and financial aid information.)
The new handbook of research on music teaching and learning : a project of the Music Educators National Conference by Colwell, Richard
Call Number: MT1 .N48 2002