Music and Dyslexia A Positive Approach

This second edition focuses on research advances, and draws out the aspects of music education that can benefit young dyslexics. The book also discusses the problems that dyslexic musicians face, and several chapters are devoted to sight-reading and specific strategies that dyslexics can use to help them sight-read.

Tim Miles, OBE, MA, PhD, CPsychol., FBPS, was the first professor of Psychology at the University of Wales, Bangor, serving from 1963 to 1987, and is now professor Emeritus. He has published widely both on dyslexia and other topics. he is an amateur cellist.

John Westcombe taught music in Inner London before taking advisory and music direction posts in three large LEAs. More recently, consultancy work has been done for Trinity college of Music and Youth Music. Current interests include concert reviewing and Chairing the British Dyslexia Association Music Committee. Heinemann published his careers in Music (1997).

Diana Ditchfield Studied piano performance at the royal Irish Academy of Music, before taking degrees in Education and trading in secondary school in the United Kingdom. Her interest in dyslexia started in the 1980s. She teaches piano at the Municipal School of Music in Limerick and is a Learning Support Tutor in Disability Services at University Level.

Foreword	p. vii
List of contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Tackling problems
Dyslexia and other developmental differences	p. 3
Things that can go wrong	p. 11
In and around the classroom
In and around the classroom	p. 19
Classroom rhythm games for literacy support	p. 26
Early years: Deirdre starts to learn piano	p. 45
Winning over the reluctants	p. 55
Can music lessons help the dyslexic learner?	p. 57
Parallels between the teaching of musical and mathematical notation	p. 68
The paperwork	p. 75
Sight-reading	p. 82
Sight-reading and memory	p. 92
Ten top tips and thoughts	p. 100
Can computers help? Matching the inner with the outer ear	p. 101
Strategies and successes
Positive connections across the generations	p. 109
Similarities and differences in the dyslexic voice	p. 117
Thirty-seven oboists	p. 124
Suzuki benefits for children with dyslexia	p. 137
Dyslexia: no problem	p. 143
Science takes us forward
Insights from brain imaging	p. 151
Music reading: a cognitive neuroscience approach	p. 162
Index	p. 171
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