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Teaching music to the deaf: Irton Silva at TEDxUFPE

1,589 views · Published 2 September 2013 · 17:55 · Indexed 26 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Irton studies Pedagogy at UFPE and, for four years now, he leads a musical experience that has been changing the lives of many young people with total or partial deafness in Recife, through an innovative metodology for teaching music to the unhearing. In this talk he explains how it works and the challenges they had to face along the way. 

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