Guía musico terapéutica para impulsar el lenguaje y el desarrollo cognitivo en niños de 3 a 4 años.

Abstract

Music therapy is a support tool that is born from music and the positive changes it achieves in human beings, above all it allows the development of the areas: language and cognitive, achieving interactive communication between people, in addition, it contributes to brain plasticity in the first years of life. The objective of this research is to establish the level of language and cognitive development of 52 children from initial I and II in order to identify the criteria that allow the development of a music therapy guide. The research is descriptive and prospective since two evaluation instruments are applied: a.- "Battelle Development Inventory - Screening Test", which assesses the cognitive area, b.- "Abbreviated Development Scale - Nelson Ortiz" which assesses the language area and whose collected and analyzed results determine that there is more participation of girls than boys with a mean age of 49.59 months with a standard deviation of 5.49. 3.8% of those evaluated are in the "alert" range in language and in cognitive development, 84.6% are in the "not passed" items. In the area of language, a lower percentage of those evaluated obtained "alert" and the majority reached the "normal" level, on the contrary, in cognitive development, the majority is located in the "not exceeded" range and in the "exceeded" level. is a small number of participants; For the statistical data, the SPSS statistical system was used, using measures of central tendency and distribution. Due to the restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a post-test was not carried out, without a doubt, it is necessary to develop a music therapy guide to promote language and cognitive development.