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PROMOTING MUSICAL LEARNING IN CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY: PARENTS' PERSPECTIVES

To promote the attendance of children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) at Arts Education Programmes of Music (AEPM), we initiated an action research project in 2018. Our work included providing initial awareness training for music education teachers, characterising the child with CP who inspired the study, and conducting three literature reviews to examine current knowledge in this area. As a continuation of this work,...

PROMOTING MUSIC LEARNING IN CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY: THE PERSPECTIVE OF MU...

To promote access, participation, and success for children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) in the Arts Education Programmes of Music (AEPM), we started an action research project in 2018. To this end, we have already carried out: initial awareness training for music education teachers; the characterisation of the child with CP that gave rise to the study; and three integrative literature reviews to find out the state ...

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Developing a digital platform for community-led initiatives: from local agents′...

To identify how digital media are being used by community-led initiatives of the Centro Region of Portugal, and to identify the requirements that a digital platform for mediation between agents in the territory should have, two focus groups were conducted, involving six small-sized community-led initiatives and six larger-sized community-led initiatives. This article details the results of these focus groups, a...

An iterative process for the evaluation of a mobile application prototype

This study is part of a research conducted under the CeNTER Program, an interdisciplinary project that aimed to promotethe development of the Centro Region of Portugal. The general contribution of this paper is the evaluation of a mobile application prototype to promote the collaboration between the various agents involved in the areas of Tourism, Health and Wellbeing. It presents two assessment stages, conduct...

Usability evaluation of a community-led innovation mobile app

Digital media can facilitate collaborative processes among local agents, value endogenous resources, and promote assets associated with territory. This article presents the results of a study concerning the development and validation of a mobile app for promoting the relationship among agents of the Portuguese Centro region’s communities/entities. This paper focuses on the results of a heuristic evaluation of t...

Parents’ voices: inclusion of students with intellectual and developmental disa...

Making Higher Education more inclusive for students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities can bring significant benefits for the students themselves and for the academic community, in general. Family involvement is essential for the successful transition to post-scholar life, namely Higher Education. This paper presents and discusses the research and results of a study conducted with four Focus Group...

Studying inclusion in music education: an integrative literature review as a su...

To reflect and clarify the methodological paths we are following, theobjectives of this work were to base the choice of the methodology to be usedin our research project related to the Inclusive Education of children with spe-cial needs in Arts Education Programmes in Music in Portugal. We started bycomparing methodologies used in other research studies on the same theme. Wecarried out an integrative literature...

Promoting social activities in an online conference during covid times: the cas...

While the lockdown significantly reduced face-to-face meetings, video conferencing platforms began to be used widely to leverage different sectors, such as academia. In this scope, scientific events such as seminars and conferences were migrating to the online environment. However, online events usually do not dedicate time to group activities, decreasing the chances of building academic and professional partne...

Understanding the role of communication and mediation strategies in community-l...

Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T10:22:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-03-01; Programa Operacional Regional do Centro; This article brings together empirical academic research on community-led territorial innovation initiatives. By engaging in a systematic literature review, the research analyses the role of digital technology in supporting community-led initiatives. Besides iden...