Useful Links — UK

Online Music Activities (mostly for kids)

• All 4 Kids UK – Huge range of links to services & advice
• BBC Learning - music pages – lots to look at & do
• Brain Opera – Tod Machover’s hyperinstruments at the frontiers of music & cognition
• Guitar Hero – a popular series of music video games
• Hyperscore – a graphic composition interface you can download & use at home
• National Foundation for Youth Music – Ways to get involved with music in your area
• Toy Symphony – interactive electronics at their wackiest

• Classical Music Archives – sheet music, MIDI files,
  
• Michael Maxwell Steer – recordings & articles by ColourMuse creator
• MusiColour - method by Candida Tobin
• National Association of Music Educators (NAME)
• Naxos Records – just about the widest range of classical music of any record company
• Playing With Colour - method by Sharon Goodey
• Sibelius Community – resources for users of Sibelius software
  ZoneMag.Net – resources for teachers
• ColorPiano - another approach.
• Piano lessons online - includes free advice
• Casio Keylight Keyboards
• Music Wizard

Disability Learning

• British Dyslexia Association (BDA)
• British Institute of Learning Difficulties
• Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) – Government ‘Valuing People’ Project
• Council for the Registration of Schools Teaching Dyslexic Pupils (CRESTED)
• Down Syndrome Educational Trust – big online resource
• Drake Project – info about disability music-making
• Dyslexia Action
• Dyslexia A to Z
• Dyslexia Scotland
• Dyslexia Scotwest
• Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre – Based in Farnham Surrey, offers advice & coaching
• Help for Parents of Dyslexic Children
• Learning Works – Consultancy & Coaching
• Maths Extra – Tools & coaching for numeracy
• Melody - Instrumental learning for people with learning difficulties
  Upside of Downs - Support group for parents new to DS