ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2015
The effect of sung speech on socio-communicative responsiveness in children with autism spectrum disorders.
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- Research trends of music in children with autism: a bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of interventions for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder in high-income vs. lower middle-income countries: An overview of systematic reviews and research papers from LMIC.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Music Therapy for Children With Autistic Spectrum Disorder and/or Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children: Early Signs and Therapeutic Interventions.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- Social interaction links active musical rhythm engagement and expressive communication in autistic toddlers.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- Parent-Child Nonverbal Engagement During Read Versus Sung Book-Sharing in Preschoolers with and without ASD.Psychology of music · 2022Article
- Effects of Three Music Therapy Interventions on the Verbal Expressions of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Combined Single-Subject Design.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Development and testing of a game-based digital intervention for working memory training in autism spectrum disorder.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Behavioral predictors of improved speech output in minimally verbal children with autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2018Article
- White Matter Integrity and Treatment-Based Change in Speech Performance in Minimally Verbal Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
- Aberrant Development of Speech Processing in Young Children with Autism: New Insights from Neuroimaging Biomarkers.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2016Review
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Abstract
There is emerging evidence to demonstrate the efficacy of music-based interventions for improving social functioning in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). While this evidence lends some support in favor of using song over spoken directives in facilitating engagement and receptive intervention in ASD, there has been little research that has investigated the efficacy of such stimuli on socio-communicative responsiveness measures. Here, we present preliminary results from a pilot study which tested whether sung instruction, as compared to spoken directives, could elicit greater number of socio-communicative behaviors in young children with ASD. Using an adapted single-subject design, three children between the ages of 3 and 4 years, participated in a programme consisting of 18 sessions, of which 9 were delivered with spoken directives and 9 with sung. Sessions were counterbalanced and randomized for three play activities-block matching, picture matching and clay play. All sessions were video-recorded for post-hoc observational coding of three behavioral metrics which included performance, frequency of social gesture and eye contact. Analysis of the videos by two independent raters indicated increased socio-communicative responsiveness in terms of frequency of social gesture as well as eye contact during sung compared to spoken conditions, across all participants. Our findings suggest that sung directives may play a useful role in engaging children with ASD and also serve as an effective interventional medium to enhance socio-communicative responsiveness.
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