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Free music training on offer for early years practitioners

Free music training for early years practitioners to support children’s speech and language skills is being offered by an award-winning music charity.
PHOTO Music as Therapy International
PHOTO Music as Therapy International

Music as Therapy International is offering seven free places on its Interactive Music-Making Course, which teaches participants a unique, inclusive approach to music-making. The course was awarded ‘Highly Commended’ in the Inclusive Practice category at the Nursery World Awards 2020.

Interactive Music-Making is a child-centred approach to music-making, launched in 2017. It aims to promote positive relationships and foster each child’s individual potential.

The course uses techniques drawn from music therapy within an approach designed to make music integral part of children’s early development opportunities, supporting skills associated with social communication, including attention and listening, non-verbal and verbal communication, turn-taking and sharing.

Alexia Quin, director of Music as Therapy International, and co-founder of Interactive Music-Making, said, ‘The various Covid-19 lockdowns have prevented many children, including the most vulnerable, from accessing services that support them in their early development and can identify the need for early intervention.

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