Use Music Therapy In Autism Spectrum Disorder

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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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 .

Detailed Description
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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

Official Title
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The Use Of Music Therapy In Autism Spectrum Disorder

Conditions
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Autism Spectrum Disorder

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: music therapy sessions .


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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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

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 3 Years
Maximum Age: 7 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

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


Arms and Interventions

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

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Arabic Language test | 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 . |