In the fall of 2014, I observed a child who has been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder; he was around the age of 13. This young boy was non-verbal but used a picture book to communicate his needs and wants with those around him. I used to work at a facility for children with special needs, and after several shifts, had begun to enjoy my time with this little dude. When I entered the facility for my shift one day I noticed how reserved and standoffish he was. I soon realized why, The Avengers was on because one of the kids had been very adamant about watching it. The way the speaker system worked is that there was only one set of speakers for both the TV and the radio. So unfortunately for the young fellow he had to wait his turn to rock
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Going from my question of what benefits can occur when children with ASD are introduced to music my hypothesis is as follows: Music will help students with ASD lessen their anxiety, and help them learn new things in a more efficient way. A correlation study that could be done is compare children with ASD and children with out ASD and see how their performance on a test is after listening to music. A potential experimental study that could be done is researchers can take 50 children with low to moderate Autism Spectrum Disorder and split into two groups of 25. Group A would have consistent music playing in the background throughout the school day (ie: class, gym, free time, lunch, etc.). Group B would have zero interaction with music through out the school day. Researchers would observe and record, children’s alertness, degree of difficulty it takes to have a child finish a task, number of times the child acted out or had extreme behaviors, the researchers would also take note of students grades through out the course of the one month observation. Then at the end of the one month study researchers would compare the data from Group A and Group B. This study could …show more content…
LaGasse took seventeen students from ages six to nine and put them into two groups. One group of children had music therapy, and the other group was in a non-music social skills group. Over the course of 5 weeks the children had ten 50-minute sessions in their groups. The goal of the sessions was to examine the effects of music therapy when it comes to targeting social skills in children with ASD. The way LaGasse evaluated the children’s progress was through video analysis, The Social Responsiveness Scale, and the Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist. The difference in the two groups was significant for joint attention with peers and eye gaze towards persons, participants in the music group showcased greater improvement. However, there was no significant difference between the two groups for initiation of communication, response to communication, or social withdrawal/behaviors. LaGasse suggest that this study supports further research on the use of music therapy for social skills for children with ASD (LaGasse,
Going from my question of what benefits can occur when children with ASD are introduced to music my hypothesis is as follows: Music will help students with ASD lessen their anxiety, and help them learn new things in a more efficient way. A correlation study that could be done is compare children with ASD and children with out ASD and see how their performance on a test is after listening to music. A potential experimental study that could be done is researchers can take 50 children with low to moderate Autism Spectrum Disorder and split into two groups of 25. Group A would have consistent music playing in the background throughout the school day (ie: class, gym, free time, lunch, etc.). Group B would have zero interaction with music through out the school day. Researchers would observe and record, children’s alertness, degree of difficulty it takes to have a child finish a task, number of times the child acted out or had extreme behaviors, the researchers would also take note of students grades through out the course of the one month observation. Then at the end of the one month study researchers would compare the data from Group A and Group B. This study could …show more content…
LaGasse took seventeen students from ages six to nine and put them into two groups. One group of children had music therapy, and the other group was in a non-music social skills group. Over the course of 5 weeks the children had ten 50-minute sessions in their groups. The goal of the sessions was to examine the effects of music therapy when it comes to targeting social skills in children with ASD. The way LaGasse evaluated the children’s progress was through video analysis, The Social Responsiveness Scale, and the Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist. The difference in the two groups was significant for joint attention with peers and eye gaze towards persons, participants in the music group showcased greater improvement. However, there was no significant difference between the two groups for initiation of communication, response to communication, or social withdrawal/behaviors. LaGasse suggest that this study supports further research on the use of music therapy for social skills for children with ASD (LaGasse,