A preliminary study of creative music therapy in the treatment of children with developmental delay. Special Issue: European Consortium for Arts Therapy Education (ECArTE)

Author(s): Gustorff, Dagmar, Neugebauer, Lutz

Journal/Book: Arts in Psychotherapy. 1995; 22: 189-205.

Abstract: Explored the effects of music therapy on developmental changes in developmentally delayed (DD) children by comparing 5 DD children (aged 4-6.5 yrs) who received 3 mo of music therapy with 3 DD children who served as waiting-list controls. Ss were evaluated with scales by R. Griffiths (1970 (1984)). The 6 subscales included Locomotor Development, Personal-Social, Hearing and Speech, Hand-Eye Coordination, Performance Tests, and Practical Reasoning; each subscale was designed to test a different avenue of learning with the intention of discovering true potentials in handicapped children. Two case vignettes are described to illustrate the quantitative and qualitative changes that occurred after the 3 mo of music therapy.

Note: music therapy; developmental changes; developmentally delayed 4 6.5 yr olds

Keyword(s): Music therapy; delayed development; childhood ; preschool age children; school age children

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