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http://dx.doi.org/10.21187/jmhb.2022.19.2.027

A Case Study of Social Context-Based Musical Play Program for Improving Communication Skills of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder  

Mo, Se-Hee (Music Therapy Education, Graduate School of Education, Ewha Womans University)
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Journal of Music and Human Behavior / v.19, no.2, 2022 , pp. 27-53 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this case study was to construct a social context-based musical play program for children with high-functioning Autism Spectrum disorder (ASD) and to examine its applicability in improving the social skills of the children. The participants were a group of three children with high-functioning ASD with an average age of 9 years. The children participated as a group in 40-minute sessions that were implemented twice a week for 8 weeks. The children's social communication behaviors were observed during the sessions and analyzed in terms of sharing and exchanging their ideas and voluntarily interacting with peers and an adult (i.e., the researcher). The Social Skills Rating System (SSRS) was completed by the teachers of participants before and after the intervention. For all three participants, the occurrence of behaviors to exchange their ideas with peers and voluntarily interacting with an adult increased following the intervention. However, there were individual differences between the participants in terms of changes in each target behavior depending on their level of language and social skill development. These results suggest that social context-based musical play program may produce positive changes in voluntary communication with peers and play a significant role in expanding the scope of interventions that target the social communication of children with ASD.
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder; communication skills; group interaction; musical play; social context-based program;
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