In reviewing this piano method book – described as ‘An introduction book for early beginners of piano and children in special education’ on the front cover – my first response was to question if these two groups could be served successfully using the same material. In the UK, special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) embraces a wide range of issues affecting the ability to learn, across a wide age-range, and the early beginners targeted here are three- to five-years-olds (or even younger), which is very early to be playing the piano. Do the needs of these two groups overlap in the way this volume implies?
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