Use Music Therapy In Autism Spectrum Disorder

Assiut University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: music therapy sessions .

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03267095

MTH ASD

Details and patient eligibility

About

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 .

Full 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

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 7 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Study

Experimental group

Description:

.Patient in stduy Arm will receive music therapy sessions

Treatment:

Behavioral: music therapy sessions .

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Patient in control Arm will have cosuling for mother and follow up