Clinical Psychology and Special Education
2019. Vol. 8, no. 1, 118–136
doi:10.17759/cpse.2019080108
ISSN: 2304-0394 (online)

Identification of Challenges and Strengths of Children with Special Educational Needs in Their Musical Improvisations

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M. Lipsky, J. Kantor

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Abstract

The study of therapeutic uses of musical improvisation can help to improve music therapy assessment which is the aim of this paper. This paper identifies 1. the individual challenges and strengths that may help to deal with problems reflected in musical improvisations of children with special needs and, 2. ways of their identification while listening to the children’s musical expression. Data collected from 180 verbal descriptions of musical improvisations of four children with special needs and then analysed using grounded theory as well as content analysis of documents. It was found that music reflects children’s problems (with mainly bio-behavioural character) as well as their strengths that may be helpful in coping with those problems. Some theoretical guidelines for analysis of musical improvisation and the planning of music therapy intervention were suggested based on these findings.

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Keywords: special needs, assessment, music therapy, musical improvisation, musical expression, analysis

Journal rubric: Empirical Research

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/cpse.2019080108

Funding. Publication of this work was supported by the University of Palacky in Olomouc, the Czech Republic [Dean grant of the Faculty of education: The Creative Means as a Part of Education of Pupils with Special Needs, 2016].

For citation: Lipsky M., Kantor J. Identification of Challenges and Strengths of Children with Special Educational Needs in Their Musical Improvisations [Elektronnyi resurs]. Klinicheskaia i spetsial'naia psikhologiia = Clinical Psychology and Special Education, 2019. Vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 118–136. DOI: 10.17759/cpse.2019080108.

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Information About the Authors

Matej Lipsky, PhD, Director, CentrumTloskov (Residential Social Care Facility for Persons with Intellectual and Multiple Disability), Neveklov, Czechia, e-mail: lipskym@tloskov.cz

Jiri Kantor, PhD, associate professor, The Institute of Special Education Studies, Palacky University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czechia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6016-3408, e-mail: jiri.kantor@upol.cz

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