Music Therapy and Speech-Language Pathology for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Authors
McCutchen, Jennifer M.
Issue Date
2011
Type
Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
Children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are communicatively impaired,
with particular difficulties with pragmatics, the component of language that involves the social
understanding of what to say and what not to say in varying situations. There is a long-standing
link between music and speech, and speech-related goals are prominent in music therapy for
autistic children. The present study is a proposal of an experiment to determine if there is a
difference in the efficacy of spee~h-language pathology, music therapy with language goals, and
collaboration between the two fields. Participants included 80 children between the ages of 3 and
5 who had been previously diagnosed with ASD. The participants were randomly distributed to
one of 4 conditions: a speech training condition, a music training condition, a collaborative
training condition, and a no training condition. The author hypothesizes that the participants in
the collaborative training condition will show the highest increase in speech production. It is also
hypothesized that the music condition and the speech condition will show an increase in speech
production, but that there will not be a significant difference between the two.
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vii, 27 p.
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