The Effect of Improvisational Music Therapy on the Communicative Behaviors of Autistic Children

Released on by Cindy Lu Edgerton
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  • Author : Cindy Lu Edgerton
  • Release Date : 1993
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  • Genre : Autism in children
  • Pages : 300
  • ISBN 13 :
  • File Size : 52,52 MB
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The Effect of Improvisational Music Therapy on the Communicative Behaviors of Autistic Children by Cindy Lu Edgerton PDF Summary

Book Description: Clinicians, researchers, and educators have studied extensively the communication deficits of people diagnosed with autism and have commented frequently on their unusual responsiveness to music. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of improvisational music therapy, based on Nordoff and Robbins' (1977) Creative Music Therapy approach, on autistic children's communicative behaviors. Eleven autistic children, ranging in age from 6 to 9 years, participated in individual improvisational music therapy sessions for a period of ten weeks. A reversal design was applied. The Checklist of Communicative Responses/Acts Score Sheet (CRASS), designed specifically for this study, was used to measure the subjects' musical and nonmusical communicative behaviors. Results strongly suggest the efficacy of improvisational music therapy in increasing autistic children's communicative behaviors. Significant differences were found between the subjects' first session CRASS scores and those of their last sessions (p

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