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 aims to create an educational toolkit for teachers’ trainers to support teachers improve the emotional, motivational, interpersonal, and social responsiveness of children with autism through music interventions and practices and help them be included in the mainstream classroom.
Music, recognized as a form of human communication, offers potential benefits for individuals with physical, intellectual, or emotional challenges. Utilizing a ‘child-centred way of learning,’ music interventions involve singing, body percussion, playing various instruments, movement, dancing, and communication activities.
These approaches aim 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
Training
- A 3-day Training Activity will be held in Greece to train youth workers on how to use the developed Guide and to deliver zero-waste workshops to youth, thus encouraging them to contribute to the sustainable development of their communities. 2 youth workers from each country will participate in the training (total of 6 youth workers).
- Second training will take place in the form of 'workshops'. Each partner will implement two workshops in their respective country. 7 youth participants will be trained in each workshop (total of 42 youth training). Workshops will include activities that facilitate youth to work together and expolore topics in zero-waste practices.
