The Effectiveness of Dalcroze Music Therapy Training on Perceptual-Motor Skills of Visually Impaired Children: A Single -Subject Research

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.

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.

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.

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.