The purpose of this study is to verify if music therapy activity has
effectively worked on changing communication, motility, and sociality of the
children who have developmental disability. Individual activity was conducted
twice a week and group activity was conducted once a week. The change on
the children through out these activities were analyzed by carrying out KISE
development scale, SMS(Social Maturity Scale), behavior and music
diagnostic scale, pre-test, post-test, follow-up test by observing record to
find out the effect of them. For subject of this study, 4 children who have
developmental disability were selected among the children who committed
music therapy to D institute located at Dae-jeon metropolitan city and then
individual activity was conducted twice a week and group activity was
conducted once a week.
As for the method of study and measurement, after grasping developmental
stage of the children by implementing KISE development scale, music proper
for those children were created and used, and behavior change in an
individual and a group activity was analyzed by using 5 rating scale of
observation record on the basis of KISE development scale test. As for a
change of sociality in a group activity, a change of children was analyzed by
using pre-test and post-test of social maturity. As for the communicative
expression upon early music activity, they showed more music expression on
nondirective language but as sessions were proceeded, they showed a change in behavior by paying attention to linguistic instructions. In the area of
motility, the coordination ability such as hands-feet, eyes-musical instrument
and a gaze at therapist etc. among music activity were unnatural but they
showed a change that coordination was getting balanced. Each child
improved in the area of sociality as well, but they showed reduction or
increase in group activity compared to individual activity due to their
temperament characteristics.
For the conclusion through the results of study, the improvement of
communication for self-recognition and interaction was achieved in music
activity. Also, physical activity responded through musical stimulus, in other
words, the movement of motility naturally got balanced and harmonized. In
the area of sociality, children also showed a difference in individual and
group activity due to their personal temperament characteristics, but overall
they showed improvement. As for creative music applied to subject of this
study, individual creative music was not used considering different extent of
weakness and difference of each child, but it showed meaningful
improvement in communication, motility and social skill of the children. It is
considered that more improvement will be achieved when using individualized
creative music in accordance with characteristics of the children.