Ali Harmer MA Ed(Early Years Music) has 18 years experience working musically with very young people. She researches joint attention in musical interactions and has a special interest in musical play and musical environments.

We like to:

Develop musical activities with those who face the highest barriers to accessing music.

We don’t like to:

Adhere to one pedagogy or approach. We’ll assess an idea, try it out, reflect on it and improve it.

We will always try

To be respectful to Deaf culture. We are not fixing a problem, we are helping children to communicate.

We don’t

Do parties! But please use our resources and make your own party.

PAS’s Main Aims

To improve the standards of music delivery for children and young people

To embed learning and effective practice in host and partner organisations

To improve the personal, social and emotional development of young children at higher risk of delay through participation in creative musical activityIndicators

To improve the communication, language and literacy development of young children at higher risk of delay through participation in creative musical activity

To acquire evidence of the music development needs of early years children with cochlear implants, develop music practice for these CI users through research and to share that learning

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About the project...

Playing Around Sound is a research project initiated by Ali and Ceilidh. Ali is a core member of the charity Gloucestershire Music Makers and Ceilidh is one of the charity’s music leaders. The project is funded by Youth Music with additional funding from Make Music Gloucestershire, the County’s Music Hub.

We are also grateful for the generous help of GlosDeaf and the County’s Advisory teachers.

Playing Around Sound

aims to develop high quality music repertoire within a fun and active music session specially tailored for children with additional needs. The thinking underpinning these sessions is based in current research into joint attention, mouth placement and gesture.

Ceilidh-Jo Rowe is a talented musician with a passion for communication. She writes and arranges music and has produced a number of albums for children of all ages. Ceilidh is completing her level 3 qualification in British Sign Language and she is in demand delivering singing and signing sessions for EYFS Teachers in Gloucestershire.

About us…

Previously...

We worked with children with complex needs introducing communicative musical play, novel musical instruments and use of a vibration speaker. Ali is developing a “Sound Seeds” App called Vibrational Music which arranges specially-written music in an innovatively non-linear way to support an interactive sensory session.

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