Music Therapy and Autism? Is There a Solution?

It is very difficult for adults to receive a diagnosis for autism, because the symptoms of autism may be mistaken as personality features but nothing else.

So treating autism may be not so easy. Aspenger’s Syndrome is a mild case of autism: it is also known as High Funtioning Autism, or HFA, and it represents a normal situation in the formal aspect. Music and autism is a new sector of studies nowadays. People who suffer of this disease may go to school or to work. Many celebrities are claimed showing traits of this disease: including Bill Gates.

In a general way of speaking, there are two main ways where music therapy is working well, for children with the disturbance of autism. Let me explain now about music teraphy and autism. These ways in treating autism that are the so called active way and passive way: at first, let me explain the passive way, where the music is played by a therapist or a radio. Listening to music could became a part of the day of a person suffering of Autism. Due the fact that to repeat things is one of the important features of Autism, we could use this to make the children learn. We play music as an encouragement.

The active way of music teraphy and autism, is to ask the children to take part in the music, singing or playing instruments, or elsewhere dancing.

Children with Autism may be very proficent in playing musical instruments.

There is actually a relatively new method for treating autism, and this method is music teraphy. This usually help patients improve temperament and learning skills: what is important in this teraphy is to reiterate things, because when treating autism this is a very important step.

Using repetition and reiteration of the acts may really help autistic children as well as music therapy and autism could be considered on the same plane.

Music and autism is a reality and my advice to the tutor charged of trating autism, is to help children and adults suffering

Music and Autism may be sorted in many different way.

Treating Autism means make children learn by listening to music, for example learning new dance coreography. This may be important as a rpeated act.

There is a reason for which all this is done, and it is, for the treating of autism, the help in the development of the use of speach of the patients.

Music may help to connect to the verbal and the non verbal functions of the mind.

As I said before autistic patients may be very good with music: some have an excellent pitch, while other may learn to play different musical instrument with a minimun of instructions.

At this regard, my advice to the people treating autism is to let autistic children play a musical intrument, and let the children to be free of playing his or her preferite music.