What if you could make your studio more inclusive?

Feel more confident teaching neurodiverse students.

Do you believe that music is for everyone?

Are you passionate about creating an inclusive music educational environment for ALL students?

The hardest part can be knowing where to start.
If you’ve ever thought:

👉 “I don’t know how to understand the unique strengths and challenges of neurodivergent students.”

👉 “Will my usual methods work for autistic students?”

👉 “I wish I knew how to create a welcoming and supportive environment for everyone.”

You’re not alone.

Trying to work it all out by yourself is HARD.

You don’t want to go wrong and let down your students.
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Unfazed: Teaching Neurodivergent Students will give you a new perspective on teaching learners with diverse learning styles

✅ Gain insights into the unique strengths & challenges of neurodivergent students

✅ Learn adaptable teaching methods that will help you engage & inspire your students

✅ Develop a toolkit of resources & strategies to create a welcoming & supportive environment for everyone

✅ Understand the importance of presuming competence

✅ Feel more confident teaching neurodivergent students

I have one student who wants to do summersaults a few times during the lesson… Most of the time things work out. Here I´ve learned some more tools and activities for her. Thank you so much!

- Elisabeth

What you’ll learn in this course:

Recognizing Learning Needs

An overview of neurodivergences, including the three main categories of autism learning styles

Building Student Confidence

The importance of presuming competence and how to keep an open mind about good/bad beviours from your students

Practical Teaching Strategies

Ways to assess students to determine if they have perfect pitch, and how to teach accordingly

Lesson Management & Student Engagement

A sequential progression for helping students work on ear training (and tips for students with unreliable verbal skills)

Engaging Musical Activities

From using play-doh in listening activities to whole-body movement games, you’ll be equipped with new creative lesson ideas.

A Framework for Long-Term Success

The Milestone Method will help your students progress through simple single-hand songs to learning notes on the stave.

Take the course for your students:

Make them feel comfortable

Learn what not to ask and say to your students and their parents.

Strength-Based Learning

Discover the process behind a strength-based approach rather than deficits-based.

Create a sensory friendly studio

Understand the potential sensory needs of neurodivergent students.

Take the course for you:

Increase your awareness of neurodivergence

Learn the acceptable language to use, and the types of disabilities and diagnoses you might encounter.

Eliminate frustrations

Understand how to feel calm, cool, and collected even when students present “difficult” behaviours.
 

Form an action plan

From guidelines for concise communication to how to create a lesson schedule.
 

Who Is This Course For?

✅ New teachers who want to open their studio doors to everyone.

✅ Established teachers who want a more inclusive studio.

✅ Teachers who turn down students because they don’t feel confident enough to teach them.

✅ Teachers of neurodivergent students who want a unique perspective and fresh material infusion.

Learn from the expert – Selena Pistoresi

Educator and specialist in neurodivergent teaching, Selena Pistoresi, is a piano teacher who runs a multi-teacher studio in San Francisco. She is well-known for her teaching experience and strategies that create positive and effective learning for neurodivergent students.

Selena has created this step-by-step course to share her extensive knowledge with you. By taking this course, you will learn everything you need to feel confident and 
competent teaching neurodivergent students.

Buy the course today!

Join the thousands of teachers who are more confident teachers thanks to courses from TopMusic.

I have been accepting neurodiverse students for about 8 years now and worried so much about not teaching them well. Am a lot more confident now but learning all the time.

— Lynda

Here's what you'll get:

41 video lessons from Selena Pistoresi (including lesson demonstrations)
Downloadable and printable handouts - a physical copy of Selena’s presentations
Recommendations for further reading, research, and resources

The Milestone Method - Selena’s way of taking students through a set of milestones

Reach out to learn more about our multi-teacher memberships