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Jessie's Fund helps seriously ill and disabled children to communicate through the therapeutic power of music. To find out more view our animated film here: youtube.com/watch?v=hJAriZb1bPE
Charity number: 1045731
Making Music with Special Children - York Course
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Our popular course Making Music with Special Children will help you to find out how music can help you to communicate with children who have life-limiting illness and/or special educational needs and disabilities. Our York course will run on the 10th and 11th November 2025 at York CVS, Priory street, YO1 6ET.
The course is open to anyone working with or caring for children and young people who have additional needs, complex needs, or life-limiting illness: whether you’re a musical novice or have some experience you will go away with plenty of ideas and techniques to put into practice in your work. We aim to give you the skills and confidence to make music with children with complex needs in a range of settings, and working 1:1 or in small groups.
The course will cover:
- Exploring musical instruments
- Working with pulse and rhythm
- Singing
- Using iPads for music
- Approaches to working one-to-one
- Working with groups
The tutors will be Mark Withers a clarinettist and creative project leader for orchestras and other organisations around Europe, delivering music projects for children with a wide range of needs, and training those who work with them, and Cathy Ibberson, an experienced music therapist working in children's palliative care and other specialist settings.
