AutisMUSIC
An innovative Music Toolkit for children with autism to improve their emotional, motivational, interpersonal and social responsiveness
About The AutisMUSIC Project
The AutisMUSIC project aimed to create an educational toolkit for teacher trainers to support teachers in improving the emotional, motivational, interpersonal, and social responsiveness of children with autism through music interventions and practices, and to help them be included in mainstream classrooms.
Music, recognized as a form of human communication, offered potential benefits for individuals with physical, intellectual, or emotional challenges. Utilizing a child-centred approach to learning, music interventions involved singing, body percussion, playing various instruments, movement, dancing, and communication activities.
These approaches were designed to assist children with developmental delays and disabilities.
Objectives
- To identify the gaps and map the needs and challenges related to music interventions for children with autism in the mainstream schools
- To build an innovative Music Toolkit for teachers' trainers and teachers working with children with autism
- To pilot-test the Music Toolkit with teachers' trainers, teachers, and their children
- To disseminate the toolkit and project results to stakeholders in the education and autism fields, and promote its sustainability and replication
Target Groups
- Teachers' Trainers
- VET organisations focused on teachers' training
- Teachers (including student teachers, music teachers, mainstream school teachers that integrate children with autism in their classes, special education teachers, etc)
- Non-governmental organisations working with children with autism
- Mainstream schools
- Relevant stakeholders, government officials in the area of education
