{"id":7738,"date":"2026-09-24T01:50:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/voice-lessons-for-students-with-special-needs\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T02:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:21:11","slug":"voice-lessons-for-students-with-special-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/voice-lessons-for-students-with-special-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice Lessons for Students With Special Needs: What Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"height:0;overflow:hidden;\"><script data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-delay=\"1\">(function(){function fix(){var m=document.querySelector(\"meta[name='twitter:data2']\");if(!m)return;var t=m.getAttribute(\"content\");if(!t)return;var el=document.querySelector(\".blog-single__meta-1 li\");if(!el)return;var target=t.toUpperCase().replace(\"MINUTES\",\"MIN READ\").replace(\"MINUTE\",\"MIN READ\");if(el.textContent!==target)el.textContent=target;}fix();window.addEventListener(\"load\",fix);})();<\/script><\/div>\n<div style=\"max-width:800px;margin:0 auto;padding:24px 24px 64px;font-family:'Source Sans Pro','Source Sans 3',-apple-system,Segoe UI,sans-serif;color:#19394C;font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;\">\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">When a voice lesson is not working, the easy explanation is that the student cannot do what is being asked. For a student with a disability or a learning difference, that explanation arrives even faster, and it is often wrong. The student may be entirely capable of the thing. The instruction may simply have come in a form that did not reach them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tunelark.com\/teachers\/louise\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">Louise G.<\/a> teaches voice at Tunelark and has trained on both sides of that problem. She holds a bachelor of music in vocal performance and a master&#8217;s in special education, taught in her own special education classroom before building her voice studio, and has taught private voice for more than fifteen years, to students of every age and ability. We asked her what her special education training lets her see in a voice lesson, what actually changes in a lesson for a student with special needs, and what singing in particular gives a student who learns differently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">If you are a parent still choosing a teacher and an instrument, our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/music-teacher-child-adhd-autism\/\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">choosing a music teacher for a child with ADHD or autism<\/a> covers those decisions. This article is about what happens once the lesson has started.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:0 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">Difficulty does not tell you why<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">The most useful thing special education taught Louise is a question to ask before drawing any conclusion. &#8220;My background in special education taught me to pay close attention to how an individual student processes information rather than assuming that everyone learns the same way,&#8221; she says. &#8220;It also taught me that difficulty completing a task doesn&#8217;t necessarily tell you <em>why<\/em> the student is having difficulty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">In a voice lesson that distinction carries a lot of weight, because the voice is a hard instrument to teach. A piano student can watch their own fingers. A singer is working with muscles they cannot see, guided by sensations that feel different from one person to the next. Instructions in voice lessons lean heavily on words and images, and a student can fail to follow one for a dozen reasons that have nothing to do with their ability to sing: the words were too abstract, there were three steps packed into one sentence, the image did not mean anything to them, or they needed another few seconds before they could respond.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">A teacher who reads every one of those as &#8220;can&#8217;t do it&#8221; will lower the goal. A teacher who asks why will change the instruction.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">When an instruction is not working, change the instruction<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Louise&#8217;s response to a stalled instruction is a list of things she can change, and the student is not on it. &#8220;In a voice lesson, if an instruction isn&#8217;t working, I don&#8217;t automatically assume the student isn&#8217;t capable of doing it,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I start thinking about whether I need to change the language, reduce the number of steps, demonstrate it, use a visual or physical cue, slow the pacing, or approach the same concept through a song instead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Each of those is a different door into the same skill. The language can move from technical to concrete, or from a long explanation to a single word. The steps can come one at a time instead of all at once. A demonstration can replace the explanation entirely. A visual cue gives the eyes something to follow, and a physical cue gives the body something to feel. Slower pacing gives processing time. And a song can carry a skill that an exercise could not, because the student already cares about the song.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Demonstration is often the quickest of these, because it skips language altogether. Louise shows one below, a short exercise for releasing the jaw and the tongue, taught mostly by showing rather than telling.<\/p>\n<div data-sage-video=\"DSYPyje8LG4\" style=\"margin:26px 0;\">\n<p style=\"font-size:12.5px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#026D81;margin:0 0 8px;\">Skill video &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Jaw and Tongue Release<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;border-radius:8px;background:#000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DSYPyje8LG4\" onclick=\"var w=this.parentNode,f=document.createElement('iframe');f.src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DSYPyje8LG4?autoplay=1&#038;rel=0';f.title='Jaw and Tongue Release';f.setAttribute('allow','autoplay; fullscreen');f.setAttribute('allowfullscreen','');f.setAttribute('data-no-lazy','1');f.style.cssText='position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0';w.replaceChild(f,this);return false;\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;display:block;\" aria-label=\"Play video: Jaw and Tongue Release\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/poster-jaw-and-tongue-release-louise.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;display:block;\" loading=\"lazy\"><span style=\"position:absolute;left:50%;top:50%;width:68px;height:48px;margin:-24px 0 0 -34px;background:rgba(2,109,129,.92);border-radius:12px;\"><\/span><span style=\"position:absolute;left:50%;top:50%;width:0;height:0;margin:-11px 0 0 -8px;border-style:solid;border-width:11px 0 11px 20px;border-color:transparent transparent transparent #fff;\"><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size:15px;line-height:1.5;color:#4a6572;margin:10px 0 0;\">Louise teaches voice on Tunelark. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/teachers\/louise\" style=\"color:#026D81;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">View Louise&rsquo;s profile<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">A worked example: one instruction, six ways in<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Take one ordinary goal in a voice lesson: a low, relaxed breath before a phrase, instead of a high, tight gasp. A standard instruction might be &#8220;breathe low into your belly without lifting your shoulders.&#8221; Six other ways to ask for the same thing:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">1. <strong>Change the language.<\/strong> &#8220;Let your tummy get big when you breathe in.&#8221; Fewer words, and a result the student can check.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">2. <strong>Reduce the steps.<\/strong> Drop the part about the shoulders for now. Breathe in so the tummy moves, and nothing else. The shoulders can come later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">3. <strong>Demonstrate.<\/strong> The teacher breathes low on camera, side-on so the student can see the belly move and the shoulders stay still, and the student copies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">4. <strong>Use a visual cue.<\/strong> A picture or an object: a balloon filling, or a toy resting on the student&#8217;s stomach while they lie down, rising and falling with each breath.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">5. <strong>Use a physical cue.<\/strong> The student&#8217;s own hands on their lower ribs, feeling them widen on the breath in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">6. <strong>Approach it through a song.<\/strong> Mark the breaths in a song the student loves, and practice only the breath before their favorite line, with the line itself as the reward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">None of these is a special-needs version of the instruction. They are six versions of it, and different students will need different ones on different days. A lesson built this way is not slower or simpler. It is more precise about what a particular student needs to hear. Our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/breath-support-for-singers\/\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">breath support for singers<\/a> explains what that low breath is doing physically.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">There is no single special-needs version of a voice lesson<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Asked what changes in a lesson for a student with special needs, Louise starts by questioning the category. &#8220;It depends completely on the student,&#8221; she says. &#8220;&#8216;Special needs&#8217; covers an enormous range of people, so I don&#8217;t think there is one special-needs version of a voice lesson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">The label covers students with autism, ADHD, Down syndrome, dyslexia, anxiety, hearing loss, physical disabilities, intellectual disabilities and much else, and within any one of those, individuals differ more than they resemble each other. A lesson plan written for the label will fit almost nobody.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">What changes, then, is specific to the person in front of her. &#8220;For one student, I might give shorter instructions and introduce one variable at a time,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Another may benefit from knowing exactly what the lesson will look like before we begin. Some students need more repetition, visual information, movement, or extra processing time. Others may become disengaged if there is too much repetition and need frequent changes of activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Two of those needs point in opposite directions. Some students want the same shape every week and a clear preview of it; others need the lesson to keep moving so it never goes stale. Both are common, and a fixed approach built for one would fail the other.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">The same question, every lesson<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Louise&#8217;s special education training gave her one habit that she now uses with all her students, not only those with an identified need. &#8220;That mindset is useful with all of my students, not only students with identified special needs,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I try to approach each lesson with the question, &#8216;What does this student need right now, in this moment?&#8217; That can vary from person to person, day to day, and even minute to minute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">A student who arrived focused may be tired twenty minutes in. An exercise that worked last week may not land this week. A plan is a starting point, and the teacher&#8217;s job is to keep checking it against the student who is actually there. This is the same principle behind any well-taught voice lesson, and our article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/voice-lessons-built-around-the-singer\/\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">the voice lesson that changes every day<\/a> looks at it from the side of a studio built around the singer rather than the curriculum.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">Let the student choose the music<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">One thing Louise holds steady for students with special needs is who picks the songs. &#8220;I try to let the student control their repertoire selections as much as possible and adapt according to their interests,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">A song the student chose carries motivation that an assigned piece rarely has, and it gives the student ownership of the lesson before a note is sung. It also gives the teacher material to build with. A favorite song can hold a breath exercise, a vowel, a rhythm or a new word, and the student practices it willingly because it is their song.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">The song still has to be a good choice for the voice, and Louise balances two things there. &#8220;I want the technical and musical demands to be challenging enough to promote growth without creating so much cognitive or physical demand that the student can&#8217;t be successful, and I want them to enjoy the songs that we work on,&#8221; she says. That balance is the same one any singer&#8217;s repertoire needs, with cognitive load added to the list of demands. A song can be a stretch in range, or in the number of words to remember, or in how fast it moves, and a teacher adjusts whichever one is too much. Our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/how-to-choose-songs-for-your-voice\/\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">choosing songs for a developing voice<\/a> walks through how she reads a song for everything else it asks of a voice.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">What singing brings together<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Singing asks a lot of a person at once, and for a student who learns differently that turns out to be one of its strengths. &#8220;One of the wonderful things about singing is how many skills can come together in one activity,&#8221; Louise says. &#8220;A student may be working with language, rhythm, breath, coordination, listening, memory, emotional expression, and physical awareness without experiencing those things as separate exercises.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">A song holds all of those together inside something the student wants to do. Singing a lyric is language practice. Coming in on time is rhythm. Holding a phrase is breath and coordination. Finding the pitch is listening, and remembering the second verse is memory. None of it has to be presented as therapy or drilled on its own, because the song does the organizing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Louise has watched those skills spread past the song. &#8220;I often see those skills contribute to greater confidence in communication, focus, self-expression, and overall self-confidence,&#8221; she says. That is an observation from years of teaching, not a promise about any one student, and voice lessons are not a substitute for therapy. But it is part of why singing can mean so much to a student who finds other kinds of expression harder.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">The same ambitious goals as anyone else<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">The risk on the other side is that the benefits become the whole point, and the music is treated as a tool for something else. Louise is careful about that. &#8220;At the same time, sometimes the goal is simply to become a better singer, learn a favorite song, prepare for an audition, or have fun making music,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s important to give students with disabilities or learning differences the same opportunity to have ambitious musical goals as anyone else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">A student with special needs may want to sing in the school musical, audition for a choir, perform at a family wedding or simply sound better on their favorite song, and those are musical goals, the same as any other student&#8217;s. A lesson that only ever aims at confidence or communication quietly decides that the student&#8217;s musical ambitions do not count.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Adults are part of this too. Special needs do not end at eighteen, and plenty of adults with disabilities or learning differences take up singing for the same reasons anyone does. Our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/online-singing-lessons-for-adults\/\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">online singing lessons for adults<\/a> covers what starting later looks like.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">Finding out what singing means to the student<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">&#8220;Ultimately, I want to find out what singing means to that particular student and build the lesson around helping them experience progress and ownership of their own voice,&#8221; Louise says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Progress is the sense that something is easier or better than it was. Ownership is the sense that the voice, the song and the choices are theirs. A lesson where the student picks the song, helps set the goal and hears themselves improve gives them both.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">It is also the fairest answer to whether lessons are working. The measure is not whether the student learns the way every other student does, but whether they leave a lesson having felt both.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">About Louise<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Louise has sung since she was small, from school chorus and solos through leading roles in musicals from the age of twelve, choral and concert work, and a competitive musical theater intensive at NYU. She holds a bachelor of music in vocal performance from Emmanuel College and a master&#8217;s in special education from Liberty University. She taught in a special education classroom and worked as a paid choir director before building her private studio online, and she has completed a 50-hour voice pedagogy certification through New York Vocal Coaching. She is a recipient of the Joan Frey Boytim Award for Private Voice Teachers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">At Tunelark she teaches voice to students of every age and level, from enthusiastic beginners and students with special needs to aspiring professionals, with a focus on healthy technique, stylistic versatility and a lesson where students feel safe enough to experiment. Here she is in performance, singing &#8220;Se tu m&#8217;ami.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div data-sage-video=\"P1XZrhhy3Xk\" style=\"margin:26px 0;\">\n<p style=\"font-size:12.5px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#026D81;margin:0 0 8px;\">Performance &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Se tu m&#8217;ami<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;border-radius:8px;background:#000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P1XZrhhy3Xk\" onclick=\"var w=this.parentNode,f=document.createElement('iframe');f.src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P1XZrhhy3Xk?autoplay=1&#038;rel=0';f.title='Se tu m'ami';f.setAttribute('allow','autoplay; fullscreen');f.setAttribute('allowfullscreen','');f.setAttribute('data-no-lazy','1');f.style.cssText='position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0';w.replaceChild(f,this);return false;\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;display:block;\" aria-label=\"Play video: Se tu m'ami\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/poster-se-tu-m-ami-louise.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;display:block;\" loading=\"lazy\"><span style=\"position:absolute;left:50%;top:50%;width:68px;height:48px;margin:-24px 0 0 -34px;background:rgba(2,109,129,.92);border-radius:12px;\"><\/span><span style=\"position:absolute;left:50%;top:50%;width:0;height:0;margin:-11px 0 0 -8px;border-style:solid;border-width:11px 0 11px 20px;border-color:transparent transparent transparent #fff;\"><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size:15px;line-height:1.5;color:#4a6572;margin:10px 0 0;\">Louise teaches voice on Tunelark. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/teachers\/louise\" style=\"color:#026D81;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">View Louise&rsquo;s profile<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">Ready to start voice lessons?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">A good voice lesson for a student with special needs is not a simplified lesson. It is a precise one, built on why a student is finding something difficult, with the instruction changed until it reaches them, the music chosen by the student, and goals as ambitious as anyone else&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tunelark.com\/teachers\/louise\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">Louise is accepting new voice students at Tunelark<\/a>. Before a first lesson it helps to send her a short message with the student&#8217;s favorite songs and anything that tends to help them learn, such as whether they like to know the plan in advance or prefer frequent changes of activity. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/tunelark.com\/find-a-teacher\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">find a teacher<\/a> for another instrument across the rest of the roster.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Can a student with special needs take voice lessons online?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Yes. An online lesson happens in a space the student already knows, and a teacher can share pictures, lyrics and demonstrations on screen. 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