Musical Activities as performance Support for the Working Memory of Hearing Impaired Children

Abstract

This study examined whether musical activities improve working memory in hearing-impaired youngsters. Due to weak working memory., hearing-impaired youngsters fail to recall.,comprehend., and apply knowledge. Hearing-impaired children may improve their working memory through creativity. A musical exercise that was creative helped with working memory. The creative thinking theory., which links creative thought to working memory., was used to solve this study's challenge. Movement improvisation and rhythm composition resulted from Orff and Kodaly's musical activities. This quasi-experimental study is quantitative. This study had 16 targeted sample subjects divided into experimental and control groups. Data analysis uses paired sample t-tests. The significant value of the paired sample t-test is 0.003 (sig. 2 tailed = 0.003 p 0.05)., and the N-gain effectiveness test is 60.2083 or 60%. This study found that: (1) musical creativity can support hearing impaired children's working memory performance; (2) musical activity using the Orff learning method is a fairly effective treatment for improving working memory performance; (3) hearing impaired children's musical rhythm perceptions can be achieved through figural abilities and visual memory; and (4) experimental tasks affect working memory performance.