Survey of Music Programs at State Residential Schools for Blind Students

Currently, students with visual impairments are the least represented disability group in the music education literature (Brown & Jellison, 2012). The purpose of the descriptive investigation presented here was to identify the types of music programs and instructional music strategies utilized by students in state schools. All three of the researchers of this article have past or present experience in teaching music to children with visual impairments, and two of them were music educators at state schools. By examining the music programs at state schools, the researchers sought to identify current trends and future areas of research for the field of visual impairment and for the field of music education.