Soundabout
Soundabout is a small national charity that supports people of all ages with severe and profound learning disabilities to find their voice through music. They use simple, sound-based, playful techniques to nurture the self-expression of people with learning disabilities, so that they can connect with others and feel the warmth of music.
Since 1995, Soundabout has been supporting parents/carers, teachers, musicians, and other professionals to learn simple techniques and activities to make music interactively with people with severe and profound learning disabilities. Alongside training and resource production, examples of Soundabout activities include music making within schools, Inclusive Choirs designed with the needs of people with profound disabilities at the centre, and Sounds Wild projects where sound is explored outdoors using a forest school approach. Soundabout’s virtual offer continued post-pandemic due to the number of families who have always been restricted to staying at home, or in hospitals and hospices.
The Greenlight Project is supporting Soundabout to launch ‘Sounds Together’, a in-person music making across communities in the West Midlands and Oxfordshire. High quality inclusive music making opportunities are disproportionately targeted at children and young people, so Sounds Together will enable adults with severe and profound learning disabilities to come together and make music supported by specialist musicians. The programmes will be bespoke to the needs and interests of the groups and will explore different ways to share voices and stories.
Soundabout
Soundabout is a small national charity that supports people of all ages with severe and profound learning disabilities to find their voice through music. They use simple, sound-based, playful techniques to nurture the self-expression of people with learning disabilities, so that they can connect with others and feel the warmth of music.
Since 1995, Soundabout has been supporting parents/carers, teachers, musicians, and other professionals to learn simple techniques and activities to make music interactively with people with severe and profound learning disabilities. Alongside training and resource production, examples of Soundabout activities include music making within schools, Inclusive Choirs designed with the needs of people with profound disabilities at the centre, and Sounds Wild projects where sound is explored outdoors using a forest school approach. Soundabout’s virtual offer continued post-pandemic due to the number of families who have always been restricted to staying at home, or in hospitals and hospices.
The Greenlight Project is supporting Soundabout to launch ‘Sounds Together’, a in-person music making across communities in the West Midlands and Oxfordshire. High quality inclusive music making opportunities are disproportionately targeted at children and young people, so Sounds Together will enable adults with severe and profound learning disabilities to come together and make music supported by specialist musicians. The programmes will be bespoke to the needs and interests of the groups and will explore different ways to share voices and stories.
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