I Am An Amazing Multitasker - 1597 Words

Aldous Huxley once said â€Å"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.†, but what if all you can hear is silence? There are six billion people on this planet, and seventy million of them can’t hear a single note. Just because you can’t hear anything doesn’t mean you can’t share in the universal language that is music. People who have impaired hearing are just as capable as learning music as your average hearing person. â€Å"Hong Kong university of China discovered that not only does the regimen of learning to read and play music increase the rate of learning new vocabulary, but it results in a permanent increase in the learning rate.† Learning how to make music is a very fun, but very challenging thing to†¦show more content†¦He ran a band program whose ensemble member were all deaf. He ran this program at the Illinois School for the Deaf from 1923-1942. He brought his ensemble on tour with him around the United States of America. A great Cornet soloist, Boumehim Kryl, called the group â€Å"Exceptional quality of the music, not only from the stand point of the musicians not being able to hear, but also the fact they were such a young age.† The New York school for the deaf intergraded five hearing impaired students in to a beginning band program in Edgemont, New York. The Teachers of this program said â€Å"Requirements for learning an instrument are similar for both hearing, and hearing impaired children: good teaching, consistent practice, and positive support.† These educators took in these children, and looked past what they can’t do, and focused on what they could. The Teachers would use modified techniques to teach pitch recognition and technique through visual cues. Even after all of the evidence that impaired hearing students can successfully make music so may directors refuse to let them participate. Students with a hearing Disability are usually referred as Deaf or Hard of hearing. The definition of being deaf according to Dictionary.com is â€Å"partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.† So it can be seen why people would raise an eyebrow about using deaf, and musician in the same sentence. Deaf students have been known to maintaining a steady beat