Kimberly A. McCord is Professor Emerita of Music Education at Illinois State University and Adjunct Professor of Music Education at Teacher's College, Columbia University. Among her books are Oxford publications Teaching the Postsecondary Music Student with Disabilities and Exceptional Pedagogy for Children with Exceptionalities: International Perspectives. She has contributed numerous articles and has served on editorial boards for research journals in jazz education, music technology and music education. She is the founder and director of Just Accessible Music (JAM), an equity-based music school in Connecticut and New York City. Cynthia Colwell is Professor and Director of Music Therapy at the University of Kansas. Among her publications are a Monograph Series published by the American Music Therapy Association, chapters for Music Therapy: An Introduction to the Profession and Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Elementary General Music as well as numerousresearch papers. She has served on editorial boards in both music therapy and education and her teaching and research foci are Orff-based music therapy and inclusion in music settings. Currently, she serves as a Visiting Evaluator for the National Association of Schools of Music.Deborah VanderLinde, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita in Music Education at Oakland University. Her teaching and research focus is the application of constructivist approaches to teaching and learning across music education and special music education contexts. A qualitative researcher, Deborah has contributed several book chapters and has numerous papers published in key journals; in addition, Deborah served as co-editor with Kimberly McCord on the book Exceptional Pedagogy for Children with Exceptionalities: International Perspectives.