Teaching Students With Hearing Losses By Alice-Ann Darrow

The article “Teaching Students with Hearing Losses” by Alice-Ann Darrow states that there are students with hearing loss that enjoy music and even learning about it. This article indicates different types of methods that should be used, it also includes different ways of music participation. The author explains how many people suffer from hearing loss. Darrow introduces different types of researchers that have to do with strategies for music training.
There are plenty of difficulties that come with teaching students with disabilities and hearing loss, many teachers in the music department often do not know how to include the students. The teachers are not sure of what methods are the correct ones. There are many people suffering from hearing …show more content…
The downside of this is that usually other nonmusical classes and goals are considered more important than musical activities. Nancy Williams is a pianist with hearing loss, she loved to play the piano but was scared that if her instructors found out they would believe that she “was hopeless as a pianist,” even though she tried to hide it she overcame this shamefulness of her condition. She personally made her experience into five steps to help music teachers, on how to guide students of any age with hearing loss (Williams, 1). Just as Darrow provides key information on how to include students with hearing loss in their class, Williams also has her own way of helping out music …show more content…
Some of those strategies would be: computerized music training programs, vibrotactile stimuli, and frequency adjustment of the musical stimuli (Darrow, 28). The evidence that the author provides would be the differnet research that was conducted in regards to this subject. The author does not present any counter opposing arguments she just stays strong on her