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ArticleFrontiers in integrative neuroscience2013

A review of "music and movement" therapies for children with autism: embodied interventions for multisystem development.

Sudha M Srinivasan, Anjana N Bhat

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Article in Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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45citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 176 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sudha M SrinivasanDepartment of Kinesiology, Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut Storrs, CT, USA ; Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention, University of Connecticut Storrs, CT, USA.
Anjana N Bhat
University of Connecticut · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rising incidence of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) has led to a surge in the number of children needing autism interventions. This paper is a call to clinicians to diversify autism interventions and to promote the use of embodied music-based approaches to facilitate multisystem development. Approximately 12% of all autism interventions and 45% of all alternative treatment strategies in schools involve music-based activities. Musical training impacts various forms of development including communication, social-emotional, and motor development in children with ASDs and other developmental disorders as well as typically developing children. In this review, we will highlight the multisystem impairments of ASDs, explain why music and movement therapies are a powerful clinical tool, as well as describe mechanisms and offer evidence in support of music therapies for children with ASDs. We will support our claims by reviewing results from brain imaging studies reporting on music therapy effects in children with autism. We will also discuss the critical elements and the different types of music therapy approaches commonly used in pediatric neurological populations including autism. We provide strong arguments for the use of music and movement interventions as a multisystem treatment tool for children with ASDs. Finally, we also make recommendations for assessment and treatment of children with ASDs, and provide directions for future research.

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autismchildrencommunicationmotormovementmusicsocial

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PMID23576962
PMCPMC3620584
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