This study aimed to see the effects of therapeutic singing activities on the
improvement in receptive vocabulary of young children. Seven non-disabled
two-year-olds at ◯◯Nursery in Daejeon participated in this study. Any
child in the experimental group had no experience of getting music therapy,
with no systematic music class provided in the nursery. This study
implemented a group program in a total of 16 session per week, 30 minutes
per session, from SEp. to Dec. 2011. The post-test was performed under the
same conditions as the pretest, using the same tools and in the same place,
on Dec. when the entire program was finished. The results showed that the
population composed of seven two-year-olds made a great improvement of
raw scores after therapeutic singing activities. Along with the improved raw
scores, the age equivalent and the percentile rank were also improved.
Therefore, educational activities with music therapy can be used as activities
for facilitating language development to meet the developmental level of
young children in the practice of early childhood education for the purpose of
this study, and are expected to present data for planning activities suitable
for the current capability level of young children on a stepwise basis and be
used efficiently in the field of music therapy for young children.