Use Music Therapy In Autism Spectrum Disorder

July 21, 2019 updated by: Mylove Amira, Assiut University

The Use Of Music Therapy In Autism Spectrum Disorder

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 .

Study Overview

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

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

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

60

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

3 years to 7 years (Child)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

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

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Study
.Patient in stduy Arm will receive music therapy sessions
Behavioral: music 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.
No Intervention: Control
Patient in control Arm will have cosuling for mother and follow up

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
The Arabic Language test
Time Frame: 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
Baseline,Change from Baseline at the end of 12 Months Music Therapy .

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Assiut University

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Anticipated)

October 1, 2019

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

October 1, 2020

Study Completion (Anticipated)

November 1, 2021

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 24, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 27, 2017

First Posted (Actual)

August 30, 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

July 23, 2019

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 21, 2019

Last Verified

July 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • MTH ASD

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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