This session will consist of video demonstrations of real students with varying special needs as they navigate their lessons and recital performances. Attendees will be able to watch progressive lesson segments with students in real learning situations as they learn repertoire, improvisation, and composition, and prepare for their performances. Special attention will focus on different learning styles of students, and on pedagogical applications that work for students with special needs, and for traditional students.

Dr. Scott Price currently serves as professor of piano and piano pedagogy, and coordinator of piano pedagogy at the University of South Carolina School of Music. Price is creator and editor-in-chief of the online piano pedagogy journal Piano Pedagogy Forum. He is a member of the Committee on Special Needs Students for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. Special teaching interests of Scott Price include teaching students with disabilities, very young children, and teaching keyboard improvisation to piano students ranging from beginning to advanced levels.