Autism Spectrum Disorder
Conditions
Brief summary
Music therapy is an established form of creative art therapy. By using music as a specific medium of communication, expression and adapting it to the individual resources and abilities of the patient, music therapy can be beneficial in activating and supporting mental and psycho-physical recover .
Detailed description
Students with developmental disabilities often have challenges in the areas of communication and social/emotional learning, which can lead to social isolation, problematic behaviors, and deficits in academic learning.These students have been found to respond well to the incorporation of music in intervention programs, in terms of both gains in communication skills and stronger social functioning . they respond more favorably and appropriately to music than other sensory stimuli
Interventions
BEHAVIORALmusic therapy sessions .
In this intervention songs compose by the therapist will be use for the study. The songs included the target word .The target words will be selecte from functional vocabularies that typically developing 3years old children can use effectively in everyday interactions.The general criteria for vocabulary words included: names of familiar objects and persons, functional action words such as words for social control , and emotional words . Inherent musical structures structures and organized musical patterns in the songs will be provide .The patients will reflect on the music therapy activity as singing the song together.
Sponsors
Assiut University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
3 Years to 7 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* 1.Age :3\_7 2.Gender : both sex will be included in the study 3.IQ ≥75 4.children who will dignosed by an expert phoniatricist as having ASD
Exclusion criteria
* 1.Age \>3 \<7 2.IQ \<75 . 3. children having other cause of DELAYED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The Arabic Language test | Baseline,Change from Baseline at the end of 12 Months Music Therapy . | The Arabic Language test: language score is the sum of the total scores of: Test of semantics Test of expressive morphology Test of syntax Test of pragmatics |
Contacts
Primary ContactEMAD KAML
Backup ContactEman Sayed
Outcome results
None listed