Teaching Opera Singing to Visually Challenged Students. As a Way of Sociocultural Rehabilitation

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10.2991/icadce-16.2016.343How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Physically challenged students; Opera singing; Inclusive education

Abstract

The Russian State Specialized Academy of Art is the unique university where physically challenged students with various nosological diagnoses can get fine arts, music and theatre higher education. Having accumulated more than 25-year-experience of practical work with people with vision, hearing and motor disabilities as well as achievements of national and foreign pedagogy, the academic teaching staff has defined the most efficient ways of special needs appropriate practices and social rehabilitation for physically challenged students, including children, by means of art. Being a vocal professor, Chair of Vocal Studies and Opera, the author of the article discusses special strategies and approaches for teaching blind and visually impaired students, focuses on psychophysical peculiarities of vocal and technical skill development of visually challenged singers.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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