Special Needs Access Program
The Special Access Kit™ is a unique system designed to allow people with special needs access to the wonderful world of music and sound.
Special Education
Special Schools are invited to participate in the Special Needs Access Program at the Arts Centre’s Digital Learning Hub. Sessions are tailored to students’ capabilities and needs and session content aims to include your learning areas to assist in delivering your current curriculum. Activities can include music making, stories, poetry, recording, percussion playing or anything else! Students attend around six pre-booked sessions (at a heavily subsidised rate) using the Arts Centre’s facilities, including the SoundHouse Special Access Kit™. The program is best suited to 4-6 students per session however this can be negotiated. Prior to sessions commencing, staff are required to meet with the SoundHouse Music Therapist and a SoundHouse Educator. This meeting will focus on Special Access Kit training, discussing the needs and capabilities of students and the current curriculum areas staff would like included in the program. All Special Access Kit arrangements can be taken back to your school to continue working throughout the year and shared with the growing group of Special Access Kit users around the world.
Limited spaces are available. To be involved please contact Joshua Cowie on (03) 9281 8748, joshua.cowie@theartscentre.com.au
The Special Access Kit™ is a unique system designed to allow people with disabilities access to the wonderful world of music creation.
The kit consists of specialised software and a "Banana keyboard". Both components require your computer. The keyboard has 16 keys configured like an oversized piano, but curved to suit the radial movement of an arm.
It may be placed on a wheelchair or bench, and is capacitance triggered for maximum sensitivity and ease of operation. The keyboard has eight extra inputs so other types of adaptive switching, such as mercury or "Jelly Bean" switches, can be plugged in to allow full user access. Software allows each key to play whatever instrument or prerecorded sound you choose, simply and quickly.
Download arrangements for the Special Access Kit™ here.
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Contact the Alfred Brash SoundHouse for purchase enquiries.
Tel (03) 9281 8194
Email dlh@theartscentre.com.au
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