There is a present lack of communication between resource teachers and music educators who work with learning disabled children. The possible reasons for this inadequate professional cooperation are divergent schedules and a lack of knowledge as to each other's long and short term goals. An overview of the music curriculum is offered as a beginning step in achieving awareness of these goals. In addition, there are specific problems LD children may have with the music educator's curriculum. They may have problems with music texts because of the excessive visual material or confusing formats. The ability to receive auditory input and respond motorically is used in primary music classes while in intermediate grades there is often auditory and visual input with a precise motor response expected. Resource teachers can aid music specialists by sharing the knowledge regarding a child's normal intelligence and by apprising the music teacher of the child's specific learning strengths and weaknesses which have applicability to music class situations.T his is, unabashedly, a plea for help! It comes from a concerned music educator, one of the "special" teachers who works with every child in a school. It is addressed to at least one of the other "specialists" who teaches individuals or small groups all day-the resource room teacher. This plea also constitutes an attempt to establish two-way (responsive) communication between professionals who may feel, at times, that they really have very little in common. And we know that this is not true! The learning disabled child who receives an hour of your teaching time per day also attends a music class, for example, once or twice a week. What happens to the child during that time? Is the music teacher more than superficially aware of the child with whom you have spent so much time? Is the music teacher cognizant of the child's specific learning problems? Conversely, do you know what the content and goals of the music class are, and how they may relate to your area of expertise? Do you think, as you pass the music room and hear children singing and playing instruments, that they are in that room to have fun-or to unwind after working hard at learning in their classroom?Lack of communication between two sets of professionals who interact with the same child may lie in, and be nurtured by, schedules which appear divergent. Or it may result from an articulation gap in the planning of activities which each adult is using to effect short and long term goals. In your present situation perhaps scheduling involves both the resource teacher and the music teacher in more than one school building each day or each week. The music teacher is commonly scheduled to teach many classes each day; sometimes with little or no time intervals between classes. Even when this adult recognizes that a child in a particular class has a learning problem, lack of time prohibits any professional attempt at immediate follow-up, which, when combined with the constant changing of classes, tends to push that child's p...