The Effects of Music Activities on the Situation Physical and Psychological Items of a Student with Mental Retardation and Emotion Disability

• Main Authors: Gan-shiuh Yang, 楊甘旭
• Other Authors: 謝建全
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35231093968392443029

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 教育研究所 === 92 === Abstract The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of music activities on the situation physically and psychologically items of a senior high school student with mental retardation and emotion disability. First, the theoretical basis of music therapy was discussed through literature review and analysis. Next, the six sets of the situation physically and psychologically items include ”, “human interaction”, “impulse control”, ”attention” etc, which were defined to target the experiment test group. Music activities and teaching materials were designed according to the theories methods of music therapy, and experiments were conducted. The study is based on A-B-A-B of single case experimental designs. The experimental subjects consist of a student with mental retardation and emotion disability of Lin-Con Specially senior high school. After four steps conducted over sixteen weeks, the results indicated: 1. Music activities could improve human interaction of experimental subject. 2. Music activities could improve impulse control of experimental subject. 3. Music activities could improve attention of experimental subject. Results of this study on mentally retarded were discussed and future research were also suggested.