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、教学和学习策略以及教师的专业知识，英国的盲人儿童目前无法像视力正常的同龄人那样在学校接受音乐教育。特别是，目前还没有触觉相当于音乐的方式表示在小学音乐课程，使用符号和字母，并没有发展知情的战略，教学系统的盲文音乐，确实存在更先进的学生。与琥珀信托，英国唯一的慈善机构，支持视障儿童和年轻人在他们的音乐追求工作，教育在罗汉普顿大学的学校将主办一个合作助学金研究这一领域的第一次，与教师，学生和盲人音乐家合作，创造新的资源，测试新的策略和评估结果。这项研究将对在校内外学习的盲童和青少年产生巨大影响。它将告知琥珀信托基金会将免费提供给盲人学生和教师的新材料的内容和设计。

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.