Exceptional Learners Deserve Music, Too!

Dear Friends of Exceptional Children,

Thank you all very much for showing your continued care by supporting GITC's work making music accessible to ALL learners. With your help we at GITC are able to continue our efforts to help all children to express themselves through music. This is such a huge effort when you think about how many decades students with exceptional needs have been left out of music education and denied access to opportunities to learn to play an instrument. Music Education is catching on, especially in regards to addressing Social Emotional Learning. 

Thanks to you, this spring we are offering courses for teachers and specialists. One of our professional development classes is specifically for teachers of students with what are classified as “mild/moderate” learning disabilities. This course is focusing on supporting literacy skills and reading recovery with adaptive music. 

GITC is also training teachers of homebound students with “moderate to severe” challengesas well as providing group music training sessions for them with their students present on zoom. Medically fragile children are experiencing the joys of making music because they are participating with hands-on support from their parents. This model of training teachers and parents together to facilitate music with students has been two years in the making. The impact is making a difference for parents as much as for their children and is incredibly moving to see.

Each of the services your donations are helping GITC provide offers an opportunity for participants to take a deeper dive into the needs of their particular students and how they can best utilize music for their physical, mental and emotional well being.  No two children are alike. 

Also, because of your generosity, we have been able to supply these students with ukuleles, small percussion instruments, and adaptive music supplies. Thank you so much!

A little encouragement goes a very long way to make someone's day or give them hope. Thank you for empowering all of us at GITC to accomplish this through your generosity. Your care and kindness is spreading the joy of music each and everyday. 

With you, for all the children,

Gail