'Music releases autistic children from their chains'

[dev9aug]

Funny how there is just one line about the Lovaas method the musician used with his own son.

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/10046513/Music-releases-autistic-children-from-their-chains.html

Star, did you enlist a piano teacher with experience in teaching people with SN/SEN? I have been thinking about trying DS3 with piano lessons (he is musical and very flappy when excited ), but I'm unsure whether a teacher would need extra skills to help him learn.

I've been trying to get him a teacher from round 3.5 years but no-one would take him on on account that no 3.5 year old wants to learn, only their parents do .

So I explained 'But he has autism, he'll practice obsessively and I doubt I'll even have to encourage him much. He is already picking out tunes', and that was always the kiss of death to the conversation.

No-one wanted to teach him.

His current teacher is affliliated to his Special School, and costs imo more than he ought but the advantages of not having to cart the kids around town after school make up for it, as well as his lack of fear of children with SEN.

In the name of inclusion, I think a school affliated music teacher would probably have to take the child unless they had a very good reason not to.!?

MD You do make me laugh..........

Good luck Zen. I'm so glad ds is learning at last.

Thanks Star. I guess I'll start investigating when DS starts school. Can quite see it would be a PITA to drag the kids somewhere after school, especially when relying on public transport!

I remember reading an article about a lovely piano teacher who was asked if she would try and teach a DC with SEN to play. She had no SEN experience, but built up such a rapport with the child, that she ended up with many DCs with SN/SEN on her books and became a bit of a specialist. Not in my part of the country, unfortunately.