ABSTRACT

Background: Down syndrome is the most common chromosome abnormality in humans. It is typically associated with physical growth delays, characteristic facial features, and mild to moderate intellectual disability. Many studies provided effectiveness of Dance movement therapy in Pediatric conditions like autism, and other behavioral and emotional problems and other mental health related problems. It is used as a psychotherapeutic or a healing tool, focusing on understanding and expressing one’s emotions. Aim: The aim of this study is to find out the efficacy of Dance Movement Therapy on a Down’s syndrome patient along with other therapeutic exercises for improving cognitive abilities, communication and quality of life. So here the effectiveness of Dance movement therapy on a Down’s syndrome patient will be seen. Outcome: Cognitive Scale for Down’s syndrome (CS-DS), Pediatric Quality Of Life Inventory (PedsQL) & Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ) are taken pre and post intervention and analysed. Result: Pre-Intervention Cognitive Scale (CS-DS) score was 67, PedsQL score was 61 and SCQ score was 24. Post- Intervention Cognitive Scale (CS-DS) score was 83, PedsQL score was 72 and SCQ score was 33. Conclusion: The finding at the end of this study is, the Dance Movement Therapy along with other therapeutic exercise is effective for improving cognitive abilities, communication and quality of life in a case of Down’s syndrome. And clinically the Dance Movement therapy can be implicated for the treatment in case of Down Syndrome. Keywords: Down's syndrome, Dance movement therapy, Cognitive abilities, Cognitive Scale for Down’s syndrome (CS-DS), Pediatric Quality Of Life Inventory (PedsQL) & Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ)
Publication date: 25/01/2022

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2022/11.1.2038