Alice Ann Darrow Teaching Students With Hearing Loss Analysis

Breeana Nicholson

March 12, 2018

Dr. Miles M. Ishigaki

Music 9: Introduction to Fundamentals of Music

Article Analysis; “Teaching Students with Hearing Loss” - Alice-Ann, Darrow.

In a world where people consider music as just a combination of sounds to appeal to an ear, they fail to see the other benefits that may come with it. “Over the past decade, increasing numbers of students with disabilities have been placed in public school music ensemble classes... All students deserve the opportunity to make music and to experience the thrill of playing or singing with others” (Darrow, Alice-Ann, 2010). Dr. Alice-Ann Darrow explores the role of music and its teaching to the deaf community and discusses some issues that are faced by educators

Many hard-hearing students do have some degree of residual hearing (Page 1) however these sounds can often be considered non-functional. Residual hearing is the ability to hear certain sounds of different frequencies. Many students however are different in regards to their level of hearing, so this can have challenges for the music eductor. Music learning is not always about the physical listening aspect, “listening is a mental process… students with hearing losses are at a distinct disadvantage if they are taught music solely through listening” (Darrow 28). With that being said, one main argument that Darrow emphasizes is the specific ways one must accommodate to the individual’s needs, and not to judge each students’ capabilities without an in depth knowledge and some analyzing. Many educators have continued to feel the need to help this specific

Alice-Ann Darrow successfully illustrated numerous instructional strategies to teach students with hearing losses. By using reliable evidence and sources, being an authoritative figure and educator herself, Darrow not only establishes a well credited article, but she appeals to her target audience of other educators. While doing this, she continually was able to captivate readers throughout the article. Educators and any other reader of this article are left influenced to make a change and experience things in a different way. This article is definitely an eye opener in that music can be heard in other ways than listening, and others should be encouraged to expand their knowledge on the importance of