Design of Music Learning Methods Based on Traditional Music for Children with Special Needs (Autism)

Abstract

Music education is the right of all humans, including children with special needs such as autistic people. This research aims to design music learning in classrooms that are in accordance with the characteristics of autistic people so that they are able to feel and interpret music in education. This research relies on the researcher as an instrument where the phenomena found in the field will be interpreted. The researcher designed and explained the cycle and pattern of learning music for children with special needs.  Researchers designed a model of musical ideas with therapy, a model of listening to music, and arrived at the concept of its application. There are four cycles designed in music learning for autistic children, namely listening to music, singing Bolelebo songs, rhythmic movements, and playing musical instruments. These four cycles have two stages of implementation, namely planning and action. Researchers also designed a classroom suitable for music learning for autistic children. This learning design allows autistic children to gain musical experience in simple forms.