Teaching Music to Students with Differences and Disabilities

Dr. Alice Hammel, 2023 National Association for Music Education (NAfME) Lowell Mason Fellow, Virginia Music Educator Association Outstanding Educator (2018), and current President of the Virginia Music Educators Association, is a widely known music educator, author, and clinician whose experience in music is extraordinarily diverse. She is a member of the faculty of The University of Arkansas, and has many years of experience teaching instrumental and choral music in public and private schools. Dr. Hammel has put these varied experiences to great use while compiling a large body of scholarly work. She is a co-author for numerous texts: Dr. Hammel is Past-President of the Council for Exceptional Children -- Division for Visual and Performing Arts Education and was recently awarded their Past President Award for Excellence. She is also a proponent of Music Will and the Modern Band Movement. Roberta L. Yee is co-editor and co-author of Winding It Back: Teaching to Individual Differences in Music Classrooms and Ensemble Settings. She has served as a presenter and clinician at the local, state, and national level, but has felt the most fulfilled in her role as an elementary general music teacher. Berta recently retired from the Halifax Area School District in Halifax, PA, but continues to learn from her graduate students, colleagues, and through self-reflection.