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Working on Young Sound Seekers has made me an advocate for accessibility and universal design. My advice to anyone who teaches: It’s really important to think about barriers that may exist while preparing your lessons, and think about ways you can eliminate them at the design stage. That is the philosophy that led me to the “Listen Pair Share” activity. I was so happy that I had the opportunity to share this at the WFAE Listening Pasts – Listening Futures conference. I talked about the need to rethink some of our cherished teaching activities (like soundwalking and silent journaling) through an accessibility lens and led a mini-demonstration with some volunteers.

The paper on “Listen Pair Share” for WFAE is current in press. I will update this post with the link when it becomes available. For now, you can listen to my March presentation and watch my slides in the following 20-minute video:

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