Music & Neurodiversity A practical guide for teachers and parents

by Marshall, Karen

• ISBN13: 9780008756871
• ISBN10: 0008756872
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2026-01-06
• Publisher: Collins Music

Summary

This book helps you to prepare neurodivergent music students to succeed, using all the tools that are available.

Packed with practical advice for teachers and parents on how to make the learning partnership positive and productive, this book opens with a letter from the author to her former self, a young student with undiagnosed dyslexia and dyspraxia.

Throughout, there are frank, first-hand accounts from a wide range of contributors, discussing real-life challenges that have been faced in music lessons, and how they have been overcome.

Author Biography

Karen Marshall is a classroom, peripatetic and private music teacher working with students from 4 to 72 years of age. Her writing is steeped in her ongoing music teaching practice. Karen is Kodá ly trained (via the British Kodá ly Academy), a mother of three, former student of the late Christine Brown, who is passionate about bringing the joy of music to all her students. She is published by Collins Music, Faber Music and ABRSM Publishing and also regularly contributing to Music Teacher Magazine.