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Second-hand Decodamaze for sale
If you’ve been reading all about the new Music Gym Hereford (or indeed the original Music Gym), and ever found yourself wishing your local area had something similar, this might just be the chance you’ve been waiting for!
We’ve been contacted by Adventure Unlimited of Brighton, who have a barely used Decodamaze that [...]

Aspire roll out new mobile special needs facility for Herefordshire
 
 
A new sensory environment designed to engage and entertain individuals with special needs and profound disabilities is set to open in Hereford on the 17th of this month.
Registered charity Aspire have teamed up with the Music Gym Ltd to produce a mobile sensory environment set to [...]

The Music Gym, something different comes to Hereford!

Sarah Teather, the current Children’s Minister (who spent much of her time in secondary school in a wheelchair following a viral infection) was recently interviewed by the Guardian, answering questions suggested by the readers on topics dealing with provisions for special needs children.
The central theme of the interview seems best summed up by the following [...]

Inspirational examples of inclusion for special needs

Just thought I’d put up a quick post to say we’ve finally got the new Music Gym site up and running at www.musicgym.org , Tom’s now got a personal blog over at www.multisensorysolutions.co.uk and I’ll be making a concerted effort to get this blog back on track!
Matt.

“Stuff in cupboards” is a phrase you’ll often hear in special education. It’s used to describe technology  acquired at some point in the past, stored somewhere and eventually forgotten about. Generally someone enthusiastically champions the item, convinces others of the need to own one and becomes the resident expert. But when this visionary leaves the [...]

A Robot Named KASPAR

Kaspar is a robot with a mission, a mission to help young people with autism learn to communicate, play and interact with others. His name is an acronym for Kinesics And Synchronisation in Personal Assistant Robots (Kaspar is a lot easier on the tongue!) and he was developed by the Adaptive Systems [...]

We’ve all got our party hats on here at the office, and if you live in or around Herefordshire you might just have reason to celebrate too!
We are proud to announce today that the formation of the first – of what we hope will be many new Music Gyms – is now under way.

An Autism Friendly Family Screening
It is estimated around 1 in 100 children between the ages of five and nine have autistic spectrum disorders, but recent research from Cambridge University suggests the figure is actually closer to 1 in 64, meaning (by my less than rigorous mathematical reckoning) there are around 781,250 children affected by the [...]