TITLE:
Effectiveness of Music Therapy on Social Skill Growth in Educable Intellectual Disability Boys
AUTHORS:
Peyman Hashemian, Mansoureh Mohammadi
KEYWORDS:
Social Skills, Music Therapy, Educable Intellectual Disability Children
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Pediatrics,
Vol.5 No.4,
December
30,
2015
ABSTRACT: Social skills include the ability to establish interpersonal
relationships with others in a way that is acceptable in terms of norms of
society and it should be beneficial to society and have mutual interest. Method: Sample was taken from
especial elementary school for educable intellectual disability children in
Mashhad, Iran. The sample was boys between 9 - 11 years. After the initial
selection of students, they were randomly assigned to two groups of twenty
(experimental and control groups). 7 sessions of music therapy were performed
for each one in the experimental group whereas no sessions were applied for
anyone in the control group. Winelend Social Growth Scale was used to measure
their social skill before and after intervention. Result: The mean difference in social skill between the
two groups were statistically less than the 0.01 which is highly significant (P-value
= 0.0005). This shows that art and music
therapy are effective on the growth of social skills in educable intellectual
disability children. Conclusion: This
research shows that music therapy is effective for improvement of social skills
in educable intellectual disability children.