Tag: music
Calm through music
Live music enhances regulation and readiness to learn at Julia Arthur-Godar's specialist school for pupils with complex social, communication and attention needs.
Mornings can be...
It’s instrumental
If music was the thread which flowed through education, we'd raise our overall cognitive capacity, writes Rachael Diop.
Teachers are often working with groups who...
Issue 139 ● November December 2025
In this issue: dance, dyslexia's ripple effect, teacher assumptions, embedding life skills, child-parent abuse, PANS and PANDAS, micro interventions, autistic cognition, polytropism bias, empathy...
Step into the room
Suzanne Lofthus was a painfully shy teenager. One day, a friend took her to a Youth Theatre in Aberdeen.
I'll never forget that feeling when...
Unlocking growth with music
Kamila Almabetova on music therapy for children with special educational needs.
Music is such an inseparable part of our existence that we often take it...
SEN135 : Mar/Apr 2025
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Another great issue, thanks to all our talented contributors. The cover image shows a child with her spoon...
Musical Beasts
Rachel Whibley talks about the most impactful, empowering and important musical performances her company has ever created.
In the world of classical music, accessibility and...
Making music with SEN
Lydia Lewis speaks to four musicians with special educational needs, who share their experiences of stigma, inaccessible music environments, their personal journeys of discovery,...
SEN132 : Sept/Oct 2024
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Making his debut in SEN Magazine, Norwegian journalist Trond Ola Tilseth reports on a fascinating experiment being carried...
The superpower of looking
We're not doing enough to give our children the visual literacy skills they need in order to explore the modern world with confidence, says...
