Implementation of an Intervention Plan for Emotional Development in People with Down Syndrome

Macarena Castellary-López, Juan Rafael Muñoz Muñoz, Victoria Figueredo-Canosa and Luis Ortiz-Jiménez
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Macarena Castellary-López: Departament of Education, Faculty of Education, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain
Juan Rafael Muñoz Muñoz: Departament of Education, Faculty of Education, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain
Victoria Figueredo-Canosa: Departament of Education, Faculty of Education, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain
Luis Ortiz-Jiménez: Departament of Education, Faculty of Education, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 9, 1-12

Abstract: The importance of music, as well as the different and diverse possibilities that it offers, favors the emotional development of any person. This research is based on the development and application of a set of activities, whose transversal axis is the use of music, to favor and promote the emotional development of people with Down syndrome. This application of activities was developed with a group of eight participants, between the ages of twenty and forty-five years old. Additionally, under a total duration of eight working sessions. In these sessions, listening, vocal, instrumental, and movement activities were developed. For each of the emotions worked on; joy, fear, anger, sadness, calm, and love, a story and a song from the story were selected for each one of them. The methodology used was qualitative, using program evaluation. For this purpose, on the one hand, the data obtained during the different sessions were analyzed, and on the other hand, the data collected in the two discussion groups carried out were analyzed. Finally, the data obtained were organized into six categories: image recognition, observation of emotions, experience of emotions, identification of emotions, recognition of emotions, and finally, enjoyment of emotions. It could be seen that, after the sessions, there was a significant improvement in the different categories. However, in the categories of identification of emotions and recognition of emotions, the results were more favorable compared to the rest.

Keywords: music; emotions; Down syndrome (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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