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The Effectiveness of Dalcroze Music Therapy Training on Perceptual-Motor Skills of Visually Impaired Children: A Single -Subject Research
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Nafiseh Rafiei *1   , Lila Sadeghi2 , Zahra Mardani Valandani1 |
1- Payame Noor University
2- Payam Noor University |
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Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of Dalcroze music therapy training exercises on improving the perceptual-motor skills of visually impaired children. Method: The present study was a single case of ABA design. The statistical population of the study included all visually impaired children under 6 years of age in Isfahan welfare centers in the 98-97 academic year. Three children were selected as a sample using simple random sampling method. After determining the baseline, the subjects underwent 8 sessions and after 2 weeks, 3 sessions were followed up. The measuring instrument was Ozersky (1950) standard test of perceptual-motor skills. Data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, percentage of non-overlapping data, median, recovery percentage, in-situ and out-of-position effect size of the data. Results: The results showed that training in music therapy exercises had an effect on improving the perceptual-motor skills of visually impaired children. In visual analysis of data graphs, the percentage of improvement for subjects 1, 2 and 3 was 67.78, 24.21 and 42.74, respectively. Conclusion: Therefore, music therapy exercises based on Dalcroze theory can be used as one of the ways to improve the perceptual-motor skills of visually impaired children under 6 years old.
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Article number: 9 |
| Keywords: Music, perceptual-motor skills, Dalcroze, visually impaired |
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Received: 2020/10/30 | Accepted: 2021/04/4 | Published: 2021/09/11
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