Stimulating cognitive, emotional and social development with the help of music: Case study of the pupil with special needs

• Main Author: Mira Kuzma
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Slovenian Psychologists' Association 2004-05-01
• Series: Psihološka Obzorja
• Subjects: music therapy; cognitive development; emotional development; social development; case study
• Online Access: http://psiholoska-obzorja.si/arhiv_clanki/2004_1/kuzma.pdf

The goal of the study was to improve some cognitive and social abilities and skills of the nine-year-old boy with special needs by using different kinds of methods and techniques of help with music. In the action research (the qualitative case study) were actively and on equal terms involved beside me as school psychologist, boy's teacher and his mother and also a boy alone. After a nine months long period of intervention, especially by the help of music (especially by individual and group remedial music making) all members of the group actively involved in researching perceived effect of the interventions – efficiency of solving problems with concentration (and with that connecting knowledge of multiplication table), learning habits, general learning results, emotional and social maturity. The results of the research confirmed the all-working hypotheses, that the use of different methods and techniques of help with music will have a positive effect on (i) boy's concentration (and with that connecting knowledge of multiplication table), (ii) boy's learning habits and his general learning results and (iii) boy's emotional and social maturity.