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- Improvisational music therapy delivered by specialist music therapists did not improve social and communication skills in children with autism spectrum disorders. Small improvements over 12 months were seen in both groups.
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Music therapy may help children with ASD to improve their skills in important areas such as social interaction and communication. Music therapy may also contribute to increasing social adaptation skills in children with ASD and to promoting the quality of parent‐child relationships.
- christian.gold@uni.no
- 01/08/2011
- Participants
- Settings
- Dependent Variables
- Intervention Procedures
- Study Designs
- Follow-Up and Generalization
- Reliability of Data and Treatment Integrity
- Outcomes
- Certainty of Evidence
Within these 12 studies, a total of 147 participants received music therapy. Two studies did not report the participants’ genders, but the other studies had a collective total of 77 males and 8 females. Participant ages ranged from 3 to 38 years (M= 6.97 years). In a majority of studies, participants were between 3 and 5 years of age. Sample size o...
Intervention settings were described for 7 of the 12 studies [Studies 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, and 11]. Of these, one study was conducted at a private practice clinic [Study 6], one was conducted in a hospital [Study 11], one was conducted in participants’ homes [Study 1], three were conducted in a preschool [Studies 2, 4, and 5], and one was split betwee...
Target skills for intervention were coded into five categories: (a) decreasing undesirable behavior, (b) promoting social interaction and social communication, (c) improving independent functioning, (d) enhancing understanding of emotions, and (e) increasing verbal communication. Two studies, involving 11 participants [Studies 1 and 3] targeted dec...
Many of the studies implemented music therapy interventions featuring the use of specific songs with lyrics related to target skills [Studies 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, and 12]. Ninety-five of the 147 participants (65 %) received this type of intervention approach. Two studies used pre-composed songs that fit the purposes of the intervention, including ...
Studies were classified as experimental or quasi-experimental. Quasi-experimental designs included A-B designs or a single-group design (Lang et al. 2012; Davis et al. 2013). Ten of the 12 included studies, involving a total of 138 participants, were classified as experimental [Studies 1, 2, 5–12]. Two studies, involving nine participants, were cla...
Only one study reported follow-up data after implementation of the intervention [Study 9]. In this study, follow-up took place two weeks after the intervention had ended. Two follow-up sessions, one week apart, were conducted. Additionally, Study 1 stated that the music therapist followed up with the families of each of the participants three weeks...
Most of the studies reported assessing reliability of data collection using inter-observer agreement measures [Studies 1, 2, 4–11]. Of the inter-rater reliability data reported, most were above the generally accepted standard of 80 % agreement. It was unclear whether inter-rater reliability was collected for Study 7, but the authors stated that a r...
Intervention outcomes were classified as positive, negative, or mixed, in accordance with the categories described by Lang et al. (2012). Seven of the studies (58 %), involving 99 of the total 147 participants (67 %), demonstrated positive outcomes [Studies 2, 5, 6, 8–10, 12]. In these studies, significant gains for the treatment condition were fou...
The certainty of evidence was rated as insufficient, preponderant, or conclusive in accordance with Davis et al.’s (2013) definitions. Seven of the studies provided conclusive evidence [Studies 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, and 11]. The majority of these were those that indicated positive outcomes (excluding Study 11). Three studies were rated as providing pr...
- Ruth James, Jeff Sigafoos, Vanessa A. Green, Giulio E. Lancioni, Mark F. O’Reilly, Russell Lang, Ton...
- 2015
Sep 27, 2024 · Music therapy is the clinical use of music-based interventions to target improvements of mental and physical health across multiple domains . Autistic children, who have difficulties in social communication have shown to have strong preferences for music .
Feb 24, 2021 · Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can experience difficulties functioning in society due to social communication deficits and restrictive and repetitive behaviors. Music therapy has been suggested as a potential intervention used to improve these deficits in ASD.
- Amparo V. Marquez-Garcia, Justine Magnuson, James Morris, Grace Iarocci, Sam Doesburg, Sylvain Moren...
- 2021
Discussion: Improvisational music therapy in children with NDDs appears relevant for individuals with both ASD and ID. More research should be encouraged to explore whether oral and written language skills may improve after educational music therapy, as preliminary data are encouraging.
Mar 22, 2022 · A study by Edgerton (Citation 1994) revealed that improvised music therapy led to a substantial improvement of communicative responses. While results vary, music therapy seems to be a promising treatment that can encourage social interaction and verbal skills of children on the autism spectrum.
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Jan 20, 2022 · Music therapy can help some autistic children and adults express themselves, communicate, interact socially, and focus. It may also help them magnify their unique talents.
