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Adventures and clubs for disabled & Special Needs Kids

Music can have enormous benefits for children with physical, emotional, and psychological needs. Music therapy can even help with language development. Technology has opened new doors for special needs children, enabling absolutely everyone to be able to make music for themselves. A great example is soundbeam– a virtual sound machine.

The range of opportunities is extraordinary, from The Squidz Club, which features young DJs and artists in a fun and friendly atmosphere, to The Golden Chord, which translates sheet music into braille. Contact you local authority disability officer and local special needs schools to make sure you’re kept in the loop about special events near you.

The BUILD Charity provides a wide range of opportunities ranging from youth clubs and youth activity schemes to a weekly social club (known as The Wednesday Club) as well as a range of community based activities with opportunities to take part in sport, gardening, outdoor and cultural activities as well as skills learning workshops.
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Drake music provide previously unimagined access to music and the arts, offering a wide range of high quality, lifelong-learning opportunities. Young DM is an exciting new platform where you can showcase your own work and ideas, discuss your passions or simply meet others online who have an interest in music, technology and art. Young DMs can create a profile upload their own music, discuss ideas, find out about Drake Music workshops in their area or just hook up creatively with other young people.
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Eye Arts Club

The Arts Club organise arts projects for children on Saturday mornings in Eye, Suffolk. They welcome children aged 7 and up, especially those with additional needs - whether physical, learning, sensory or behavioural. They aim to provide an integrated, yet supported, setting for arts activities, social interaction and fun. Activities include movement, dance, visual arts, film, animation, puppetry and maskwork.
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A personalised music transcription service providing music-related materials and sheets in Braille.
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Dedicated to exploring ways in which everyone can discover and express their own musical personality.
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Non-profit organisation holding music events for disabled children. Also events for the 'Aiming High' music project targeted at disabled children aged 11 to 18.
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Offers access to music for disabled people. Has three fully accessible music rooms decked out with an array of instruments and musical technology to enable the disabled and able-bodied to get involved and enjoy making music.
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A unique charity that brings music and the performing arts to deaf people. Includes training workshop details, newsletters and a deaf musicians forum. Deaf Youth Orchestra, a "Fun Day" and tuition scheme. Music and the Deaf runs workshops for all ages and all degrees of deafness. These can be an introduction to music, be about composing, can include dance and drama, be longer-term projects, about signed song - whatever your need they can devise a workshop for you.
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A charity that transforms the lives of children and adults through the power of music. They deliver over 50,000 music therapy sessions per year in care homes, day centres, hospitals, schools and our own centres. They are also developing a range of other music and health projects aimed at bringing music to more and more people in local communities.
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Youth club activities
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Services include daytime support services, support in the home and community, social enterprises, Domiciliary Services, supported living and a social club in the evening.
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Sense is a national charity that supports and campaigns for children and adults who are Deafblind. They were established from a family support group in 1955 by parents whose children were born with rubella, and the experience, skills and views of families remain central to their work. You can see how they have developed over almost 60 years on their website. Sense offers high-quality, flexible services across the UK, using skilled staff and a dedicated network of volunteers. They work with a wide range of Deafblind and multi-sensory impaired people, as well as those who have a single-sensory impairment with additional needs. They work with children, young people, adults and older people with a progressive sight and hearing loss, offering a range of housing, educational and leisure opportunities. They also offer support to all Deafblind people in both the congenital and acquired Deafblind communities, not just those who receive direct support and services from them.
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SHABANG. Creating arts projects for children with disabilities/additional needs.
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Devon based music group that creates opportunities for those with sensory impairments or learning difficulties to take part in music and theatre performances.
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Children who cannot use traditional instruments can now make music of their own with an easy-to-use invention developed at the University of Edinburgh. Site offers details of this touch sensitive colourful, squeezy cube that allows severely disabled to play and enjoy music.
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Hindhead Music Centre in Surrey introduce their courses for children with disabilities.
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The Total Arts creative learning group is for young people aged 11-19 with disabilities. They offer regular Saturday workshops featuring dance, drama, music making, film production and story devising leading to productions.
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Yorkshire Association for Music and Special Educational Needs. Working to bring music, happiness and joy into the lives of those who will benefit most from it.
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