Art activities with Kinect to students with cognitive disabilities: Improving all motor skills

Abstract

The study presents a set of interactive activities based on the dance and on the music for students with cognitive disabilities which are resisting to the therapies of rehabilitation with the physical therapist. The development of each one of these activities has achieved with teachers, physical therapist and students, all of them members of the research team. We have followed for this studio the principles of the Design Based Research. The main results are that the students have been more motivated in the accomplishment of activities of rehabilitation based on the music and on the dance. Also, these games have been motivating and very useful resource for the acceptance of conventional the therapies.