SEND Settings
SEND Settings
Music-making designed around need inclusive ensembles, sensory and communication-led sessions, staff training in music-based approaches, and specialist recording/performance opportunities for young people in special schools and SEND units.
Who’s funded to deliver it here
Music & SEND Resources
Disabling barriers to formal music education: Drake Music (2012). A nationwide consultation finding poor organisation/planning is as significant a barrier to disabled young people’s music participation as the disability itself.
Reshape Music: Youth Music & Take It Away (2024). Only 7% of disabled children and young people take part in music groups run by their local Music Education Hub.
Sounds of Intent: Welch, Ockelford, Carter, Zimmermann & Himonides, Psychology of Music (2009). A validated framework for tracking musical development in learners with profound/complex needs, from 68 participants across five special schools.
Music-based interventions for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities: a systematic review: Rushton, Kossyvaki & Terlektsi, Journal of Intellectual Disabilities (2023). 6 of 7 reviewed studies found positive social-skill outcomes.
Written evidence to Parliament: Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy (2020). On building communication, confidence and self-esteem through music therapy for autism and complex needs.
Maybe I’m Amazed: A Story of Love and Connection in Ten Songs: In this extraordinary memoir, a father tells the story of how music has opened up the world to his son, one song at a time.
Also delivering SEND music-making locally (not OMH-funded)
Coda Music and Arts Trust HCPC-registered music therapists, Christchurch, Dorset base plus school/care-setting outreach.
Nordoff Robbins, Poole: free, open-access music therapy every Wednesday at Tricuro Parkstone Connect Day Centre.
West Dorset Mencap — Gateway Club: fortnightly club, Bridport, including singing workshops.