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AMAR Method

Music is a possibility to learn, express ourselves, meet and participate.

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A smiling teacher plays the guitar while two students take part

The AMAR Method is a pedagogical and didactic strategy created by Fundación Amadeus to make music learning accessible to people with and without intellectual disabilities. It starts from the recognition that there are different ways of learning and offers resources that allow people to approach the musical experience from those differences.

What is transformed

Skill development

Sustained instrumental practice trains attention, memory and coordination, and leaves its mark on school learning.

Expression and well-being

Music opens a channel of its own to say what we feel, regulate emotion and gain confidence.

Bonds that connect

Playing in a group requires listening to others: social participation is learned by rehearsing together.

How does it work?

One of its signature resources is the pictunotas, visual representations that relate musical notes to everyday objects, making them easier to recognize and understand. The use of color complements this strategy and supports processes such as attention, concentration and short-term memory.

El Método se desarrolla a partir de tres dimensiones que se relacionan entre sí:

  1. 01

    Awareness

    It fosters bonds among participants, teachers and the community.

  2. 02

    Characterization

    It allows us to recognize each person's capacities from an interdisciplinary perspective.

  3. 03

    Application

    It integrates experiences of listening, rhythm, storytelling, pictunotas and instrument performance.

In this way, the musical experience also becomes a setting to strengthen cognitive, sensory, emotional and social skills, and to foster bonds, teamwork and active participation.

AMAR Method stories

A girl smiles while holding an AMAR Method card

Music becomes a space for encounter and participation. Our participants share their talent through musical performances that bring other people closer to new ways of living inclusion.

Clínica de Occidente

A young woman from Fundación Amadeus smiles while playing a recorder

With the support of Fondo Karuna we built a space dedicated to music, where participants of the Vocational Music Workshop can strengthen their musical skills and find in them new forms of expression and participation.

Fondo Karuna

What is distinctive about Amadeus is making music an accessible language that recognizes capacities, accompanies different ways of learning and opens possibilities to participate alongside others.

Accompany a student on their musical journey

Families, teachers and companies can get involved with the AMAR Method: write to us and we'll tell you how to get started.

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