The Development of Musical Abilities as a Value and as the Outcome of a Strategy for Supporting a Child with Special Educational Needs

Abstract

This article discusses the practical approaches to organising and implementing activities aimed at supporting musical abilities in the pre-school educational process. It presents the issues of the relevance and necessity of selecting educational tasks which take into account the interests, musical talents and individuality identified for a particular child. The progress of an individual in terms of musical skills, constituting a specific value of the musical abilities of a child, results from implementing the described organisational and methodological improvements, which create opportunities to experience a variety of forms of musical activity. An analysis of the author’s own research, demonstrating children’s musical achievements and skills, is used in the article to point out the value of pre-school education in this process.