F80.1 F80.2 F83
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Single therapy sessions with a mean duration of 25 minutes followed the concept of creative music therapy of Robins/Nordoff.The therapist offers music, which is always oriented at the musical
Sponsors
No/Ro-Musiktherapie am Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Herdecke
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
42 Months to 6 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Children needed to have a specific speech development disorder (ICD-10-Codes: F80.1, F80.2, F83). Due to the close relation to phonological abilities scores below 50 points of 100 in the phonological short-term memory for for non-words (German: PGN) and one other subscale of the applied speech test SETK 3-5, were also considered significant for inclusion in the study. German as the native language was also a precondition
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: previous experience with music therapy, a diagnosis of autism or mutism, and speech development disorder due to organic causes (e.g. deafness).
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| SETK 3-5 Subscale "understanding sentences" Subscale "generation of morphological roles" Subscale "phonological memory for non-words" Subscale "memory for sentences" Subscale "memory for word sequenzes" | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| music therapy assessment scale all sessions were recorded on video for analysis and assessed in detail after each session. Nordoff/Robbins assessment scales were used to evaluate developments in music therapy for the firt and last session of each music therapy block Scale 1 assesses the "child-therapist relationship in musical activity" (CTR) and Scale II assesses "musical communicative ability" (MCA) both on a 10-point scale where 0 denotes lowest values and 10 denotes highest values in the respective categories || SON-R The SON-R 2 ½ - 7 is an individual intelligence test which does not require the use of spoken or written language. It is especially suited for children with problems in the area of language and verbal communication and comprises six subtests of about 15 items adressing the dimensions activity patterns and mental structures. Activity patterns include the scales ?Categories (abstract thinking, organising principles)? , ?Analogies (abstract thinking)? and ?Situations (concrete thinking)?. Mental structures are given by the scales ?Mosaics (spacial comprehension)?, ?Puzzles (concrete thinking)? and ?Drawing structures (spacial comprehension)?. Test results are measured in scores for the three areas of general intelligence, mental scale and action scale. Norm tables for monthly age-groups enable the transformation of raw subtest scores into normalized standard scores. The total test results are represented as IQ-scores and as reference age. | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactUlrike Linden
No/Ro-Musiktherapie am Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Herdecke
Outcome results
None listed