Jordan Welch Duffy, Barbara, and Ray Fuller.

"Role Of Music Therapy In Social Skills Development In Children With Moderate Intellectual Disability." Journal Of Applied Research In Intellectual Disabilities 13.2 (2000): 77-89. Academic Search Complete. Web. 27 Mar. 2013.

The article was describing a set of experiments and observations that were made using musical therapy to try and help children with intellectual disabilities. The researchers took 32 children from a special school that was for the mentally disabled and did some pre-screening tests on them. As stated in the article Factors including the age and gender of the participating children were not found to be related to the development of social skills across either intervention investigated over the present study. They tested their eye contact, turn-taking, imitation, vocalization, and their initiation before and after the research experiments. Through the testing the researchers were hoping to improve the childrens scores in these categories. There were two groups in the experiments. One group had musical therapy and the other group did not. There were 16 planned sessions of therapy although they were not able to complete all of these sessions due to some illnesses amongst the children. By the end, one child was kicked out of the experiments due to behavioral problems and another child was substituted in for him but was not counted in the final data due to the lack of pre-screening research done on the child. In the end of the research and the experiments it was determined that music therapy did help. The post scores of the children with music therapy were noticeably better than the post scores of those with no musical therapy. The scores were no

Jordan Welch coincidence since the numbers were so noticeably different. This led the researchers to believe that musical therapy does indeed help those with a mild intellectual disability. The source was written by two psychologists from Dublin, Ireland. One was a worker at a center for autism and the other was a professor in a colleges department of psychology. They were experimenting to see the effect of music on the mentally impaired. This type of effect has been labeled musical therapy. The writers released their findings to inform people and other scientist of the effect music has on the mind and learning. This will promote further research and testing in this discipline. The authors, writers of my source, are both credible because the are both well known in their field. The both have high recognition jobs that could only be attained if they were experts in that department. I selected this source not only because it was a study that is relating exactly to my proposal but also because it not only proves my thoughts but at times it also disproves them. I like that because it forces me to think of new concepts and why it sometimes disagrees. I learned that my theory was for the most part correct. It needs some fine tuning and its needs to be more specific, but overall its spot on. By this article including the experimental facts this will give me proof behind my theory to help me write my paper. It will be easy for me to use the charts and data tables in my essay to convey the cold hard facts of this paper into the paper of my own. The research was very thorough and should coincide nicely with my own research and findings.