Book excerpt: Are you a music teacher struggling to connect with your students with special needs? Perhaps you are a director of a specialized school in search of better quality music programming for the students you serve. Maybe you are a parent attempting to connect to your child with special needs through music. Creative Miracles: A Practitioner's Guide to Adaptive Music Instruction provides an in-depth look at the adaptive music classroom and offers practical strategies and suggestions for ways music can be adapted for those who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing with disabilities, and for those who have cognitive, intellectual, and other related disabilities. Written from the perspective of an experienced, passionate adaptive music teacher who has served in the teaching trenches, this book initiates a long overdue conversation about the landscape of adaptive music instruction and the ways it can be transformed.