This study was to examine the effects of music therapy on improvement of Self-expression of a Woman with Intellectual Disability. The subject in this study was a woman with intellectual disability residing at M welfare facility in D metropolitan city....
This study was to examine the effects of music therapy on improvement of Self-expression of a Woman with Intellectual Disability. The subject in this study was a woman with intellectual disability residing at M welfare facility in D metropolitan city. This program consisted of 15 therapy sessions in total ; each session lasts 50 minutes once a week for 15 weeks from March 19 , 2014 to June 25, 2014. Each session, Rakos & Schroeder ' s scale was carried out for the observer group. Each session was analyzed sessionally and qualitatively. It was found out that there was enhancement on the self-expression of the woman with intellectual disability. Also, the results indicated that the therapy was effective for enhancing the textual self-expression score, lingual self-e x pression scores and nonverbal self-expression score in Rakos & Schroeder ' s scale. And in the result from the quality analysis, there had been more active in self-expression in the latter than the early. Music therapy was effective for the improvement of the self-expression of the woman with intellectual disability.