What is it about?
There is evidence that music combined with speech attracts the attention of people with autism more than speech alone. Our trial seeks to harness that idea to investigate whether young children with very small vocabularies can be encouraged to learn more words by associating the words with song.
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Why is it important?
Teaching verbal language to young children with autism is not straightforward. New techniques are required which build on the child's interests.
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This page is a summary of: A Randomised Controlled Feasibility Trial of Music-Assisted Language Telehealth Intervention for Minimally Verbal Autistic Children - The MAP Study, March 2021, Research Square,
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-299846/v1.
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