Turkish International Journal of Special Education and Guidance & Counselling

Yazarlar: Deniz Çadır, Hasan AVCIOĞLU

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Intellectual disability,Music therapy,Social skills.

Özet: Teaching social skills by using music therapy to students with intellectual disabilities was planned in this study. The aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of social skills training program, based on music therapy, on students with intellectual disabilities. Multiple probe across subjects single subject research methodology was used in this study. The working group of the research consists of 9 students that have middle level mentally learning inability and go to Education Application Scholl and Vocational Education Center. The findings of this study demonstrated that the social skills training program was effective on presenting inviting others to play, bringing back the objects that he/she borrowed and to fulfill undertaken task or tasks on students with intellectual disabilities and they continued to used these skills after the program ended. Besides, these skills were maintained after the intervention and generalized to different environments and people by the students.

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