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~"The Museum of disABILITY History is dedicated to advancing the understanding, acceptance and independence of people with disabilities. The Museum’s exhibits, collections, archives and educational programs create awareness and a platform for dialogue and discovery. " From the website you can get an idea of what exhibits are currently showing, explore the virtual gallery and discover ways in which to incorporate their educational resources into your lesson. @http://museumofdisability.org

~"The Rhythmic Arts Project empowers people with various disabilities to succeed in the world. We integrate drums and percussion instruments as creative learning tools that address life skills and enhance the mind, body and spirit." This program is not about learning drumming techniques, but about using rhythm in helping learning basic life skills such as counting, identifying colors and spelling which incorporates visual, tactile and auditory perceptual motor learning. www.traponline.com media type="youtube" key="JWdkKBqM2fU" height="315" width="420"

~Braille Bug is a website geared toward kids that is sponsored by the American Foundation for the Blind. This website offers basic information in an easy to learn way on topics such as the Alphabet, numbers, punctuation, Nemeth "math braille", braille technology, and most importantly, in our case, music braille. The following link is to the music braille portion of the Braille Bug website which the Introduction to Music Braille Lesson was based off of. @http://www.braillebug.org/music_braille.asp

~ " Let's Drum is an interactive educational program that uses music as a means to introduce or develop a variety of elements in peoples’ every day lives. Using musical games, structured traditional rhythms, and improvisation, participants from all levels of musical ability can play in a comfortable and welcoming setting." The sample lesson plan featured on The Let's Drum website is what inspired the Group Drumming activities for the classroom lesson.

@http://www.letsdrumprogram.com/lessonplan.pdf

~Tuned in to Learning is a music-assisted learning curriculum for special education which was created by a team of therapists and music therapists who realized that typical children's music to be inappropriate for the learning styles of children with special needs. From the website you can read testimonials of parents, therapists, professionals and teachers on the program, purchase CDs and curriculum books and sign up for a free sampler-CD! @http://www.tunedintolearning.com