1. Using music to assist language learning in autistic children with minimal verbal language: The MAP feasibility RCT.
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Williams TI, Loucas T, Sin J, Jeremic M, Meyer S, Boseley S, Fincham-Majumdar S, Aslett G, Renshaw R, and Liu F
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- Humans, Male, Child, Preschool, Female, Music psychology, Music Therapy methods, Language Development, Verbal Learning, Attention, Autistic Disorder psychology, Autistic Disorder therapy, Feasibility Studies
- Abstract
Lay Abstract: Research has shown that autistic individuals often have unusually good musical skills and that combining words and music helps autistic individuals to focus on spoken words. This study tests the idea that music will help with early language learning of preschool autistic children. The results show that when caregivers sing words to autistic children, the children pay more attention to the caregiver than when the words are spoken and that they learn word combinations more easily., Competing Interests: Declaration of conflicting interestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.
- Published
- 2024
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