Early Years Music and SEND with Rachel Pollard

Using Music to Support Auditory-Avoidant Sensory Needs in Young Children with SEND

This CPD session introduces early years practitioners to the challenges faced by children with auditory avoidance sensory profiles and how music can be used as a gentle and supportive tool to meet their needs. Through practical demonstrations and discussion, participants will learn to adapt familiar songs and sound-based activities to create low-arousal, inclusive musical experiences. Attendees will leave with a resource pack of calming music ideas, strategies for reducing auditory overload, and a greater confidence in supporting auditory-sensitive children in their daily practice.

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, 30th June 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

Registrations are closed

Using Music to Support Auditory-Avoidant Sensory Needs in Young Children