Recent content by Pattypoundcake

That is INCREDIBLE. Your son sounds like an amazingly perceptive little boy! How neat to be able to feel music like that...I can hear it and I don't think it effects me as much as it must effect him (and you!). I will definitely update on how my student is doing. I am very excited to have him...

LOL yes, actually the professor for the class petitioned the family of the author of the other book to "update" it and was rejected...so she is writing a new one. She is fabulous and you know, actually does her research! There is very little out there in the lines of reading for music teachers...

Shel, I sure hope so...I am taking a few classes in grad school right now where some of the reading is extremely out of date (one book I had to read mentioned that 90% of deaf people are also retarded...obviously the author never met any deaf people? And that was written in 1990)...thankfully...

Shel, thank you for telling me this. That is exactly what I am trying to avoid. I don't want to force him into anything. I will also make sure his parents aren't forcing him into it, since I do have all of his siblings and the parents are really into it. I am sorry your music teacher caused you...

Wow that is really interesting how you can hear notes not chords. I will definitely keep that in mind when we get into those things. Since you play piano and I suck at it and the answer might be obvious, when there are chords do you hear the root of the chord or the melody, or am I way off?

Hello! This is my first post here and I sincerely hope that it is OK. I am an instrumental music teacher in public schools, and I will have a 4th grade boy with cochlear implants this coming school year. From what I know he signs a bit, lipreads a bit, and has only had implants for a year or so...