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Piano Music As A Behavioral Intervention At The Ellensburg, Wa Developmental Preschool, Christopher Hull
Piano Music As A Behavioral Intervention At The Ellensburg, Wa Developmental Preschool, Christopher Hull
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Limited empirical support presently exists for the use of music as a behavioral intervention for students with disabilities. The purpose of this research was to study whether the social behaviors of children enrolled in a developmental preschool classroom changed in response to live piano music. The principal investigator hypothesized an increase in dyadic and/or other group-oriented play in the presence of live piano music, compared to when no piano music played. This eight-week study used a single-subject, A-B-A-B-C withdrawal design and a 30-second partial interval sampling procedure to sequentially observe and analyze the frequency of six operationally defined behaviors among …