None listed
Conditions
Interventions
Music Therapy is a treatment that the patient uses music, sounds, voice and musical instruments in a therapeutic process to develop his capacities and his difficulties. The treatment is focused in the relation between patient- music therapist. Thus, music, sounds, voice and musical instruments are the way to promote health benefits for the patient. In this study, each patient will receive 20 sessions of treatment. Each session lasts 30 minutes and happens once a week. Before starting the consultations, all patients will be assessed by Evaluation of Language Development (ELD). In the next moment, it will be executed the randomization and division of patients into two groups (experimental group and control group). After, patients in the experimental group will receive the treatment. Then, the participants in the experimental group and control group will be evaluated again by ELD. Finally, the control group will receive treatment the same way that the experimental group.
Sponsors
Fund of Incentive to Research of Porto Alegre Clinical Hospital (FIPE)
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
6 Years to 17 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Children with mental disabilities, with losses in motor skills and verbal and nonverbal communication. Children with autistic spectrum disorder secondary, associated with multiple deficiencies of losses in cognitive, motor and communication. Children with multiple disabilities where the main cause was a cerebral palsy.
Exclusion criteria
Children who receive music therapy treatment in parallel. Children who have music or sounds restrictions.
Outcome results
None listed