Enhancing Communication and Social Interaction through Music

Early Years Music and SEND with Rachel Pollard

Enhancing Communication and Social Interaction through Music and Intensive Interaction Techniques

This session focuses on the use of music to support the development of communication and social skills in children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). Drawing on the principles of Intensive Interaction, practitioners will learn how musical exchanges can enhance connection, responsiveness, and turn-taking. Attendees will take part in group activities and observe examples of musical attunement in action. By the end of the session, participants will have practical ideas and a toolkit of accessible music-based activities to promote interaction with children who find verbal communication challenging.

This course is for:

• Early years Practitioners
• Family Hub staff that work with children 0-5
• PVI staff
• Stay and Play session Leaders

When: 1-2pm, 10th July 2025

Where: On Zoom (a link will be shared before the training via email)

Cost: Free (Fully Funded)

For all booking enquiries please contact Quench Arts:

Email:info@quench-arts.co.uk

Tel: 07716 362478

About Sounds of Play

Sounds of Play Project is a workforce development project led by The Springfield Project, a leading partner of Birmingham Forward Steps (BFS). The project is built upon the partnership of 18 early years and music organisations in the city who together make up the Birmingham Early Years Music Consortium (BEYMC). In 2019, the Consortium was thrilled to be awarded a grant from Youth Music to deliver the Sounds of Play project which ended in March 2022. This project brought the Early Years and Music workforces together to learn from each other, to develop high quality Early Years Music practice across the city and to deliver music activities to children under 5 and their families. In 2023, Youth Music awarded a further £150,000 to BFS to continue to develop early years music practice and provision across Birmingham and build on the established relationships formed between the partner organisations.

www.springfieldproject.org.uk/children-families/sounds-of-play/

@PlaySoundsof

Partners in the BEYMC

· B’Opera

· Barnardo’s

· Birmingham City Council

· Birmingham Community Healthcare

· Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

· Birmingham Nursery Schools Teaching

Schools Alliance

· City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

· Centre for Research in Early Childhood

· Early Years Alliance

· Kids

· Mac Makes Music

· Quench Arts

· Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

· The Springfield Project

· Services for Education

· St Paul’s Community Development Trust

· Spurgeons

· Welsh National Opera