title: A preliminary investigation of a school-based musical theater intervention program for children with intellectual disabilities.
abstract: The presence of an intellectual disability may cause a child to have significant deficits in social skills and emotion regulation abilities across development. A vital next step is to find interventions that can be delivered in the school environment and across disability categories that target socioemotional factors. The current study investigated the feasibility of delivering a school-based musical theater program to students with intellectual disability across a range of school settings. A within-group repeated-measures design was used to analyze pre- and post-video recordings of the intervention program, which were coded for six domains of socioemotional ability across all participants ( n = 47). Results showed that significant gains across all domains were observed. However, these gains related to school- and individual-level student factors, such as grade level, severity of disability, and baseline social skill ability.
authors.affiliation: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Olena
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Zyga
authors.affiliation: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Sandra W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Russ
authors.affiliation: The Musical Theater Project, Cleveland, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Meeker
authors.affiliation: The Musical Theater Project, Cleveland, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Jodi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kirk
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001155:Art Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities / Q000379:methods*; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D009147:Music Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D012574:Schools; D066107:Social Skills
keywords: intellectual disability; musical theater intervention; socioemotional functioning; special education