Peer integration of pre-school children through musical activity

Abstract

This article is theoretical in nature, it is an attempt to show the peer integration of preschool children through musical activity. At this age, intensive physical, emo-tional, cognitive and social development takes place. A child, also with a disability, who is part of the social group created by the preschool community, makes the first at-tempts to interact with people outside the circle of closest people through various forms. One of these forms is musical activity of children, i.e.: singing, movement to music, playing musical instruments, active listening to music, creating music by children. Properly organized and led by the teacher, activities shape not only the gene-ral development of children, but also contribute to building positive relationships be-tween them, and also improve their social and communication skills. Hence, joint edu-cation of able-bodied children with children with disabilities is so important.