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Background. The central impairments of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affect social interaction and communication. Music therapy uses musical experiences and the relationships that develop through them to enable communication and expression, thus attempting to address some of the core problems of people with ASD.
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Music Therapy for Patients With ASD and/or Other NDDs. The...
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Jan 20, 2022 · A 2017 clinical trial found music therapy produced no significant improvement in severe autism symptoms in children. A 2018 clinical trial found 8 to 12 weeks of music therapy for school-aged ...
Music Therapy for Patients With ASD and/or Other NDDs. The particular interest in music of patients with autism was already noted in the historical description by Kanner . He observed that some non-verbal patients are able to sing or hum. Some other patients are able to recognize complex melodies.
Oct 5, 2022 · Keywords: music therapy, social interaction, speech, autism spectrum disorder, children. Citation: Ke X, Song W, Yang M, Li J and Liu W (2022) Effectiveness of music therapy in children with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Front. Psychiatry 13:905113. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.905113
- Improvisational Music Therapy
- Family Centered Music Therapy
- Group-Based Improvisational Music Therapy
- Singing/Listening Songs
- Risk of Bias in Included Studies
One of the most researched music therapy methods for children with ASD is IMT. In this type of therapy, the child and the therapist play tuned and untuned musical instruments expressing rhythms, melodic patterns, and timbre. During the child’s musical play, the therapist introduces synchronization and communication with the child by mirroring or co...
In an effort to increase the engagement of children with ASD with members of their family, one important variant of IMT was developed, FCMT. This therapy shares the same principles as IMT; however, the FCMT technique is implemented within a family-centered framework. Each FCMT session usually includes a greeting song, specific music activities, fre...
Based on the premise that group-based therapy can improve overall social competence in individuals with ASD (Reichow et al. 2012), the main principles of IMT were extended to a group format by LaGasse (2014) to explore whether group-based musical therapy differed from a non-musical group-based therapy. The results revealed improvements in both grou...
Although a large percentage of individuals with ASD (25%) are non-verbal, few interventions are able to produce significant improvements in communication in these individuals (Wan et al. 2011). Educational experiences through songs suggest that singing might be useful due to their high-pitch perception and their ability to vocalize musically (Scott...
For the RCTs in this meta-analysis, most of the domains were evaluated as having a low risk of bias (allocation sequence concealment, incomplete outcome data, and selective outcome reporting of domains). Within the “allocation concealment” category, an unclear risk of bias was assigned to many of the reported studies due to unclear or absent descri...
- Amparo V. Marquez-Garcia, Justine Magnuson, James Morris, Grace Iarocci, Sam Doesburg, Sylvain Moren...
- 2021
Dec 14, 2023 · Summary. Music therapy for autism is used to help individuals with social interaction, verbal communication, initiating behavior, and reducing anxiety. The benefits of music therapy may include improved communication, social skills, behavior, sensory issues, self-reliance, and parent-child relationships. Professional music therapists have the ...
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Apr 8, 2021 · Interactive music therapy is essentially a structured method including techniques for educational purposes or musical games. For clarity, in this article, the term educational music therapy will be used for this category. Improvisational music therapy uses children's music production to promote spontaneous non-verbal communication.
