Teacher's opinions about the use of music for teaching concepts to mentally retarded children

This study was done to determine what the opinions of teachers? working at the schools for mentally retarded children was about the use of music for teaching concepts. Teachers? opinions were put by two kinds of schools for severely handicapped children at preschool and primary school levels and for moderately handicappeds who finished primary school younger than 21 years old. And the relation between two school types by the opinions were investigated. The research was a descriptive study based on the main field research and qualitative findings obtained through scanning sources and the quantitative findings were obtained from semi ? constructed individual interviews. Interview form created by investigator was applied to teachers. Quantitative findings were analyzed statisticly and findings tables were explained. The results showed that, teachers at schools for severely handicapped children felt themselves enough to use musical activities for teaching concepts, and they use musical activities for teaching concepts more than others.