Music and Dyslexia (eBook)

A Positive Approach

Tim Miles, John Westcombe, Diana Ditchfield (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2008
192 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-72390-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Music and dyslexia is of particular interest for two reasons.
Firstly, research suggests that music education can benefit young
dyslexics as it helps them focus on auditory and motor timing
skills and highlights the rhythms of language. Secondly, dyslexic
musicians at a more advanced level face particular challenges such
as sight-reading, written requirements of music examinations and
extreme performance nerves.

This is a sequel to the highly successful Music and
Dyslexia: Opening New Doors, published in
2001. The field of dyslexia has developed
rapidly, particularly in the area of neuropsychology. Therefore
this book focuses on these research advances, and draws out the
aspects of music education that benefit young dyslexics.
The contributors also discuss the problems that dyslexic
musicians face, and several chapters are devoted to sight-reading
and specific strategies that dyslexics can use to help them
sight-read.

The book offers practical techniques and strategies, to teachers
and parents to help them work with young dyslexics and dyslexic
musicians.

Autor

Tim Miles, OBE, MA, PhD, CPsychol., FBPS, was the first professor of Psychology at the University of Wales, Bangor, serving from 1963 to 1987, and is now professor Emeritus. He has published widely both on dyslexia and other topics. he is an amateur cellist. John Westcombe taught music in Inner London before taking advisory and music direction posts in three large LEAs. More recently, consultancy work has been done for Trinity college of Music and Youth Music. Current interests include concert reviewing and Chairing the British Dyslexia Association Music Committee. Heinemann published his careers in Music (1997). Diana Ditchfield Studied piano performance at the royal Irish Academy of Music, before taking degrees in Education and trading in secondary school in the United Kingdom. Her interest in dyslexia started in the 1980s. She teaches piano at the Municipal School of Music in Limerick and is a Learning Support Tutor in Disability Services at University Level.

Inhalt

Foreword.

List of contributors.

Preface.

Section I. Tackling problems.

1. Dyslexia and Developmental differences (T. R.
Miles).

2. Things that can go wrong (T.R. Miles).

Section II. In and around the classroom.



3. In and around the classroom (Christine McRitchie Pratt).

4. Classroom rhythm games for literacy support (Katie
Overy).

5. Early years: Deirdre starts to learn piano (Olivia McCarthy
and Diana Ditchfield).

6. Winning over the reluctants (Christine McRitchie Pratt, Diana
Ditchfield, Sheila Oglethorpe and John Westcombe).

7. Can music lessons help the dyslexic learner? (Sheila
Oglethorpe).

8. Parallels between the teaching of musical and mathematical
notation (Tim Miles).

9. The paperwork (Diana Ditchfield).

10. Sight-reading (Sheila Oglethorpe).

11. Sight-reading and memory (Michael Lea).

12. Ten top tips and thoughts (Nigel Clarke).

13. Can computers help? Matching the inner with the outer ear
(Adam Apostoli).

Section III. Strategies and successes.

14. Positive connections across the generations (Annemarie Sand
and John Westcombe).

15. Similarities and differences in the dyslexic voice (Paula
Bishop-Liebler).

16. Thirty-seven oboists (Carolyn King).

17. Suzuki benefits for children with dyslexia (Jenny
Macmillan).

18. Dyslexia: no problem (Diana Ditchfield).

Section IV. Science takes us forward.

19. Insights from brain imaging (Katie Overy).

20. Music reading: a cognitive neuroscience approach (Lauren
Stewart).

Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.8.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Logopädie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
• Schlagworte: Bildungswesen • Education • Sonder- u. Förderschulen • Sonder- u. Förderschulen • special educational needs
• ISBN-10: 0-470-72390-4 / 0470723904
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-72390-6 / 9780470723906