Application Of Music Games In Music Education Of Children With Mild Mental Retardation

Children with intellectual disabilities belong to a relatively special group in the whole society,and the cultivation of their cultural knowledge and living ability is an issue that the government and the society need to pay attention to.Related studies have shown that music can be used as an effective therapeutic tool to help mentally handicapped children indirectly stimulate their brain physiology and slowly improve their psychological characteristics and behavior patterns.Music games as one of a kind of very natural and effective way of education,can involve in music content with mental retardation in the form of children’s mental development and physical activities such as the effective combination of the mental retardation children’s music teaching from pure music knowledge gradually implanted into more targeted music comprehensive teaching and humanistic care.Through the study of mental and physical characteristics of children with mental retardation,this paper takes children with mild mental retardation as the research object.Through three months of teaching practice,this paper has carried on a period of communication with the children with mild mental retardation and a series of interviews with their teachers and parents,and discussed the psychological and physiological aspects of the children with mild mental retardation.The literature research method,case study method,observation method and interview method are used to conduct in-depth investigation.In practice,the principles of music games such as safety,intuition,fun and step-by-step are followed,and the implementation of music games such as rhythm games,singing games and rhythmic games in the music classes of children with mild intellectual disabilities is adopted to help them learn and play while playing and master music knowledge in a relaxed way.After practice,it is concluded that long-term intervention of music games can help children with mild mental retardation improve their music perception and music memory,and improve their cognitive ability,motor coordination ability,self-care ability and social communication ability.In practice,it is found that there are still many substantive problems in music teaching for children with intellectual disabilities.Including the improvement of teachers’ comprehensive quality;The improvement of school treatment equipment;Government financial support;The care and help of social groups will become the main issues of the education of children with mental retardation in the future.