The confinement plan and in view of the situation we are taking in the world is leading to a high level crisis position in many sectors. The state is serious for everyone, but for some it is much more so. Face-to-face activities focused on special education have been suspended and the continuity of special education centers (CEE) for children with disabilities is not being given importance.
Other teaching sectors that fall within the special education project have maintained their premises of continuing to maintain their activities. For them it was fight for the fantasy and learning of these guys online. This is the case of the Creative Workshops related to music and participatory of the OSCyL, where more than 80 people have been affected in Castilla y León and which had been operating for more than 10 years.
The importance of music in CEE for children with disabilities
This group of therapy and development with music, have been left out of the project and radically suspended, without any explanation or response to your requests. Their teachers have been affected and without ERTE por the neglected proposal in the confinement situation before COVID-16.
The premise of the government is to keep the special centers offering other strategies in a virtual way so that they do not remain in the shelter. But many parents have remained in the paradigm of until when they are going to maintain a course that followed a routine many months ago.
This project was part of school activities and that struggled to maintain and advance their emotional and cognitive behavior. With music as the main source, it was the adaptation subject that most motivated the boys no matter what kind of need they lacked.
The bankruptcy of these school activities does not only imply an overload for these boys to adapt their skills to the social world. Also affects both parents personally, for a better evolution of your children, and the impact of a labor insolvency.
How do boys evolve with this type of music therapy?
You have to think that This collective or musical program helps a lot. The discrimination of this association is of the utmost importance for it to run its course in the physical and emotional development of these people.
For them teaching and listening to music is not the same as using music as a medium, since it favors psychological and cognitive development. Within their measures and a good evolutionary strategy they give confidence, and the boys are more motivated:
- It favors communication: incorporating music with specific melodies and rhythms invites children to interact with other classmates. It opens their ability to recognize the signals and codes of communication, so that they can acquire the ability to communicate.
- Promotes body expression and motor skills: the use of coordinated and articulated movement helps you to follow a pattern and pattern, and to fix your attention. They use the movement of their body and use percussion instruments to repeat the same rhythmic pattern.
- It favors socialization and cooperation: It is not the same to listen to music in the background than to use music with the incorporation of rhythmic movement games. They learn to distinguish the different parts of their body, numbers, figures and other more important ones depending on the needs and characteristics of each child.
- They learn relaxation: It is used with the closing of the activity, with calm music and soft and slow movements, accompanied by a deep and rhythmic breathing technique.
It should be noted that, although the evolution is slow, your progress is remarkable with this type of music therapy. They develop much better their motor and vocal skills and perfect their sense of rhythm.
Why is it so important to open these centers and continue with the same activities?
Many parents complain about the situation that is being maintained, they do not know if this leads to a full-blown cut or they want to adapt to a strategy plan that has been going on for several months.
The Government wants to transform special education schools into "reference and support centers for ordinary centers." With this measure, they would be reserved for those students who need "very specialized" attention and that is this type of modification is not at all feasible.
With the new situation we are experiencing, it is not known if this measure is following its progress and wants to take advantage of any circumstance to give rise to the measure. On the other hand, parents emphasize seeking support measures, scholarships, and special services to make up for all the needs that have been lost.
Not even with all the support that parents can offer, which is already a lot, they cannot cover everything that these centers offer, the curriculum of these professionals is adapted and their teaching is different. The teachers give all their affection and affection, they are more aware of their evolution and help them to progress.
It creates a lot of frustration that all the slight advances your children have made come to nothing and that many of your children become much more introverted by not surrounding themselves with people.
Many of these students they need their teachers, their music, physiotherapy and speech therapy, their daily routine is important to them. Once again, we must give thanks to this type of teaching for working with harmony and quality. Must be reviewed the modality of music therapy that is practiced and the importance for these children with specialized care.
We all want to rely on a law that is not enforced
It was decreed by law that, in the principles and purposes of education, all students, including students with specialized care, They must have an equal quality of education, without educational inclusion and with the same rights and opportunities. Even being entitled to a specialized education to achieve an optimal degree of development and thus guarantee the quality of family, work and personal social life. We want this type of care to be "very specialized."