Mišljenje roditelja djece s teškoćama u razvoju o primjeni programa muzičkih radionica
Opinion of parents of children with developmental disabilites On the application of music workshops programs

Summary/Abstract: Parents play the most important role in a child’s life and influence their overall development. It is parents who are the first to care for the child, raise them, teach them values, provide information about the world and enable them to gain life experiences. Therefore, the opinion of parents about the processes affecting their children is extremely important in order to ensure mutual understanding between parents and experts and quality work. The subject of this research is the opinion of parents on the application of music workshops, i.e. the aim of the research was to examine the opinion of parents of children with developmental difficulties of preschool age about the application of the music workshop program. The research was based on a descriptive method, and the technique was a survey using a questionnaire. The music workshop program is based on the research model Sound in the Early and Preschool Period – Levels 2-5 (Voyajolu, Ockelford, 2016; Welch et al., 2009), and its duration is 12 weeks. This program was implemented through individual work with children using musical improvisation, vocalization, body parts as instruments, Orff instruments, Peter Hess sound bowls, ocean drums and similar percussion instruments. Parents confirmed that the applied music workshop program influenced attention retention, increased concentration, and they felt satisfaction and relaxation. They expressed their desire for music workshops to be held on a larger scale and continuously, and to be mandatory in work with children with developmental disabilities.

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