[blindkid] Keyboarding vs. Band

[Merry-Noel Chamberlain]

Tene,
Band, band, band - all they way.  What he gains in band will last a lifetime.  My oldest daughter (sighted), graduated years ago and is still friends with the people she met in Band.  Socialization is so very important - especially for our kids.  My youngest daughter (blind) is following in her older sister's footsteps.  She is 10 and loves playing music.  I got her Talking Typer and she worked on that all last summer and finished that on her own.  She now loves to email family members.  Focus on the socialization aspect of band and tell the TVI that that is part of the Expanded Core Curriculum.  She should know what that is.  If not, it's on the Texas School for the Blind website.

Best wishes.
 
Merry-Noel Chamberlain, NOMCT, TVI
Blind mother of a blind child.

--- On Tue, 5/11/10, Tene Gibson <g_tene305 at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Tene Gibson <g_tene305 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [blindkid] Keyboarding vs. Band
To: "BVI-parents" <bvi-parents at yahoogroups.com>, "(for parents of blind children) NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List" <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Date: Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 6:36 PM


My 10 year old son (light perception only) wants to participate in middle school band.  He is already receiving training in music for drums and the guitar privately.  We are in the middle of making his schedule for the next year and there seems to be an all encompassing fear for him to participate in band among the school's administration, his TVI, and the band teacher.  The TVI wants him to take more keyboarding because he cannot remember the keys in which to type.  He hates it.  He gets further away from technology as each year goes by when pushed in the vein.  There is a conflict in the times of the class so it is band or keyboarding.  I am looking for objective opinions as to keeping a child connected with school vs. maintaining classes that bore him and feeds his ability manipulate his medical conditions into excessive excused absences.

Tene
mother of Na'im (ONA) 


      
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