This research was carried out in order to investigate the effects of VR applied music therapy mediated ‘stories of the situation’ in the feeding behavior modification of the intellectually disabled adults. The case study objects were consisted of ...
This research was carried out in order to investigate the effects of VR applied music therapy mediated ‘stories of the situation’ in the feeding behavior modification of the intellectually disabled adults. The case study objects were consisted of 3 intellectually disabled adults attending daytime care center for the disabled, located in Seoul K-district and multiple baseline designs were used between subjects. The initial research period was from May 2nd till May 31th, 2018, 5days a week using baseline and arbitration and observation of the maintenance phase was done on 11th, 12th, 14th of June in a 3 session.
The therapist was recommended by three intellectually disabled adults to observe their eating habits. Since then, the therapist has compiled a list of 13 eating behaviors that 3 intellectually disabled adults can perform and started observing the baseline. Observation and recording was performed with a wide angle camcorder documenting the daily meal time of the 3 client's baseline, arbitration and the maintenance phase. Afterwards the therapist used the event recording to indicate and record the moment at which the target behavior occurred. With the measured data, the 3 client's inter-subject baseline, arbitration and maintenance phases were analysed with the multiple baseline graph.
The result revealed that all 3 intellectually disabled adults showed increase in the quantity of the target behavior through music therapy intervention. Subject A performed at average of 3.4 actions out of 13 in the baseline, and 8.3 through the 6-20th arbitration phase and high results of 12 actions through the maintenance phase. Subject B performed at average of 2.2 actions out of 13 in the baseline, and 5.6 through the 9-20th arbitration phase and 10 actions through the maintenance phase. Lastly subject C performed at average of 4.2 actions in the baseline, and 7.3 through the arbitration phase and 11 actions through the maintenance phase.
The three subjects performed an average of 3.2 items on the baseline, an average of 7 items in the mediation phase and an average of 11 items in the maintenance phase.
The result was that all three people were able to naturally accept therapeutic content through the characteristics of music such as repetitive structure of songs and familiar melody, and eventually, by applying the lyrics to the actual situation, increasing the number of target behaviors. So, in this study, the use of music for people with intellectually disabled adults has led to an opportunity for active learning in their social skills training.