Show Notes

Episode 37 Strategies for Helping Students with Learning Difficulties

00:00 Welcome to Part 3 of teaching piano to children who have learning difficulties.
00:44 Janet Olsen from Utah, USA joins the panel as both a piano teacher who teaches kids with special needs and a mom of two special needs children.
01:19 How Janet started teaching special needs students
01:49 When parents say that you’re their last hope to do music…
03:01 How to get students’ attention
03:52 What learning difficulties are you working with? Autism, ADHD, Anxiety Issues and other learning difficulties
04:50 What are the key things to remember when teaching
06:52 What’s the big prize? Choosing rewards
08:30 Janet shares using Whole Body Learning with her students
10:01 Students are achieving better results than Janet expected.
10:35 How backing tracks help students to learn more effectively and help learn songs easy piano
13:31 Teaching Mozart to students who have issues...