Practicing Sound Education for Children with Hearing Impairment

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Music education in deaf schools in Japan usually focuses on visual information. This study proposes a new curriculum for hearing-impaired children based on Schafer’s A Sound Education which I used to teach music to hearing-impaired children at a deaf school in Aomori over two school years. Throughout the study, participation observation was utilized to discern the behavior of the students. Six elementary and two high school students were selected as participants to practice the sound education exercises. Analysis of the observation data revealed that these exercises helped hearing-impaired children to hear various sounds, suggesting the necessity of music classes based on sound education. Keywords: sound education, hearing-impaired children, participation observation