Points of Contact: Researching new resources and strategies for teaching and learning music notation in tactile form for blind children using the Soun

由于缺乏资源、教学策略和教师专业知识，英国的盲童目前无法像有视力的同龄人那样在学校接受音乐教育。特别是，目前还没有在小学音乐课程中使用符号和字母来表现音乐的触觉等价物，也没有为更高年级的学生提供的盲文音乐系统教学的发展知情战略。与Amber Trust合作，罗汉普顿大学教育学院将首次主办一个合作学生活动，与教师、学生和盲人音乐家合作，创造新的资源，测试新的策略，并评估结果。Amber Trust是英国唯一一家支持视障儿童和年轻人追求音乐的慈善机构。这项研究将对失明儿童和在校内外学习的年轻人产生巨大影响。它将告知新材料的内容和设计，琥珀信托基金将向盲人学生、学生和他们的老师免费提供。

Blind children in the UK are currently unable to access music education in schools in the same way that their sighted peers do, due to a lack of resources, teaching and learning strategies, and expertise among teachers. In particular, there is currently no tactile equivalent for the way that music is represented in primary music curricula, using symbols and letters, and no developmentally-informed strategies for teaching the system of braille music that does exist for more advanced students. Working with The Amber Trust, the sole UK-wide charity that supports visually impaired children and young people in their pursuit of music, the School of Education at the University of Roehampton will host a collaborative studentship to research this area for the first time, working with teachers, pupils and blind musicians to create new resources, test new strategies and evaluate the results. The research will have enormous impact on blind children and young people studying within and outside school. It will inform the content and design of new materials that The Amber Trust will make freely available blind pupils, students and their teachers.