[Menvi-discuss] Music Therapy Certification Exam and Braille Music/Tactile Graphics

Wed Jun 27 01:14:45 UTC 2018

Hi everyone.  Thank you for the suggestions thus far.

Patrick, I have enjoyed the transcriptions you’ve done for me. I wouldn’t
have been able to work with my adapted piano lesson student without them. I
have plans to refer the testing company to you if we get there, and i wil
be moving amd looking for more musical ensembles for personal music-making
there. I’ll keep in touch.

As for the advocacy, i know where these tactile graphics might be gathered
from, but it all has to go through the testing company. Getting them for
personal use is something i could normally do, but not in this case since i
wouldn’t be able to know what graphics to even look for without having
information about what is on the exam. I need to get them to do it.

On Tuesday, June 26, 2018, Stephanie Pieck via Menvi-discuss <
menvi-discuss at menvi.org> wrote:

> RNIB may also have some musical graphics, but they are more for notation
> than anything else. The book I'm referring to is the tactile graphics
> portion for "AB Guide to Music Theory, Parts 1 and 2". I think you can join
> the RNIB library through your regional NLS library--they set it up as a
> kind of inter-library loan if I remember correctly. Best way to find out,
> though, is to contact the RNIB library directly. They may also have
> resources related to music therapy.
>
> As for advocating for test accommodations, I'm not as familiar with how to
> go about that and don't know what other organizations you might be
> connected with that could assist in your advocacy. My experience with
> getting test accommodations from New York State Dept. of Civil Service for
> exams has been very good.
>
> I wish you luck and hope someone else with more expertise in this area
> gives you better information than I can.
>
> Stephanie
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Chela Robles via Menvi-discuss
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 8:12 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] Music Therapy Certification Exam and Braille
> Music/Tactile Graphics
>
> Hello I do not know if you are part of the Aira community, but, it is
> worth asking if they will Accommodate you and using that service since it
> is essentially a human being looking at the test with you. Innoway it is
> using a human proctor even though they’re technically not with you in
> person. Just a thought. I also know that APH has tactile graphics regarding
> music and music theory and musical instruments and staves and such, it
> might be something to look into.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jun 26, 2018, at 4:33 PM, Kaiti Shelton via Menvi-discuss <
> menvi-discuss at menvi.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I recently completed my bachelors degree in Music Therapy from the
> University of Dayton, as well as my required 900 hour internship at The
> Music Settlement in Cleveland, Ohio. I have my first full-time job lined up
> and am set to start on July 9th, but the problem is that I am having
> difficulty getting the appropriate accommodations for my certification
> exam. Currently, the testing company, Applied Measurement Professionals, is
> saying that I can have either Jaws or a human reader for my computerized
> test, but not both, and they will not provide any braille music or tactile
> graphics. This is problematic because there may be some questions on the
> test that use pictures or print notation if the practice tests were any
> indication. I was unable to attempt answering those questions on the
> practice exams because of additional issues and a lack of basic awareness
> of accessibility with screen readers for the self-assessment exam. I've
> explained to multiple people that with jaws alone I can't attempt to answer
> any picture or notation questions because Jaws will not read me that
> information, but I also want to have agency and independence in my test and
> want to be mindful of my time frame I have to take it. I could use a reader
> in theory, but I have a friend who took the exam by reader a few years ago
> and got someone who couldn't read music notation, so for that reason and
> the time issues I would like to avoid using a reader if at all possible.
> Today when I told all of this to the testing people again, I asked point
> blank why they wouldn't provide me with braille music and tactile graphics,
> and I told them I was taking notes. That switched them from we won't give
> them to you full stop to we'll look into it, but they have me temporarily
> scheduled for July 6th. I told them clearly that if accommodations are not
> in place properly we will have to reschedule, and it will need to be done
> all over again at a different test site because I am moving to start my new
> job.
> >
> > To clarify, some of the questions requiring notation knowledge might ask
> questions about accompaniment styles, basic theory questions, etc. The most
> I've seen on a practice test was a question about identifying a jazz
> accompaniment pattern in a few bars, and there were A, B, C, and D multiple
> choice examples. Tactile images might show things like a guitar fret board
> or a piano keyboard and ask the examinee to recognize by sight what
> particular chords are, also with the potential for separate A, B, C, and D
> answers. I've been told some weirdly conflicting information about the
> tactile stuff, such as their work around for not providing a guitar neck
> tactile image in the past has been to tell blind examinees they can bring
> their own guitars into the exam room. This seems fishy to me since you
> can't even bring your own calculator into the SAT or the GRE, and when I
> asked to have access to a Perkins brailler and braille paper instead of a
> piece of blank paper and a pencil like everyone else gets I was told I
> couldn't do that. It also seems to me that holding a guitar and being able
> to identify what a chord is like without manipulating the hand position are
> 2 different skills, and if one hammers on just slightly too hard or bumps
> the strings that could give the examinee audible cues for what a chord
> might be, how something sounds, etc. I don't want to even run the risk of
> being accused of cheating because of poor testing accommodation procedures,
> but I'm also not clear if they'll let me bring in a guitar neck tactile
> graphic that I've made myself based on how wishy-washy they are on what I
> can and can't bring in, and what they will and will not provide to me. I'm
> more nervous about getting what I need to take the test than I actually am
> about taking it with the knowledge I have and my studying. How can I go
> about pushing for braille music and tactile graphics in a more directed way
> than I have been doing so far?
> >
> >
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> > Kaiti Shelton
> >
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