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Author: two toots ★2017
Date: 2016-05-14 18:28

Hi, this is my first post and I have a sensitive question.

I'm in my 60s and my daughter (24) and I been taking clarinet lessons from a very nice man for 4 years. My daughter has Down Syndrome so our situation is somewhat unusual. Our teacher is a very nice person but we drive an hour and a half for an hour lesson (I increased the length of the lesson to include me and to try to gain more content) which is lucky to consist of 15 minutes of instruction with the rest of the hour spent yakking about unrelated topics. I feel like he wants to fill the hour and collect the money but he really doesn't want to teach us.

I think we need to move to a new teacher but I am afraid that most instructors will find it difficult to tailor lessons to our needs.

So what do professionals think? Can your expectations be modified to include a handicapped student's ability? We practice an hour a day but she has limited verbal comprehension.

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