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Since the beginning of human history, percussion instruments have served man in the aspects of daily life thanks to their diversity and their easy way of producing sound through blows. Just as this instrumental family has so much diversity, we find diverse people, some with special physical or cognitive conditions that need to be integrated into the society of these times. Music and the study of instruments, in our case percussion instruments help the individual to grow in many ways as a person. Panama from the year 2020 implemented the Special Education Program, Ministry of Culture, with the purpose of promoting and developing skills and attitudes through instrumental performance among selected groups of people with special physical or cognitive conditions, and at social risk, reaching an enrollment of 1885 students in 2023. With the objective of evaluating this program, in particular the area of music-percussion, this study was conducted with a Multimethod approach in which 108 parents were surveyed, a case was established and interviewed, and direct observations were made to program assistants, the qualitative and quantitative data were triangulated for a better understanding and interpretation. The results suggest that the participants who opt for the study of percussion manage to establish an affinity with the instrument to which they adapt, overcome learning obstacles, which allows them to integrate into their social and family environment.
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