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Effect of " developmental speech and language training through music " on speech production in children with autism spectrum disorders . The study compared the effect of music training , speech training and no-training on the verbal production of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders ( ASD ) . Participants were 50 children with ASD , age range 3 to 5 years , who had previously been evaluated on standard tests of language and level of functioning . They were randomly assigned to one of three 3-day conditions . Participants in music training ( n = 18 ) watched a music video containing 6 songs and pictures of the 36 target words ; those in speech training ( n = 18 ) watched a speech video containing 6 stories and pictures , and those in the control condition ( n = 14 ) received no treatment . Participants ' verbal production including semantics , phonology , pragmatics , and prosody was measured by an experimenter designed verbal production evaluation scale . Results showed that participants in both music and speech training significantly increased their pre to posttest verbal production . Results also indicated that both high and low functioning participants improved their speech production after receiving either music or speech training ; however , low functioning participants showed a greater improvement after the music training than the speech training . Children with ASD perceive important linguistic information embedded in music stimuli organized by principles of pattern perception , and produce the functional speech .
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Intervention_Educational
" developmental speech and language training through music "
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Intervention_Control
no-training
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Intervention_Educational
music training
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Intervention_Educational
music video containing 6 songs and pictures of the 36 target words ;
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Intervention_Educational
speech training
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Intervention_Educational
speech video containing 6 stories and pictures
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Intervention_Control
control condition
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Intervention_Control
no treatment .
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Intervention_Educational
music
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Intervention_Educational
speech training
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Intervention_Educational
music training
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Outcome_Mental
speech production
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Outcome_Mental
pre to posttest verbal production .
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Outcome_Mental
speech production
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Outcome_Other
improvement
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Participant_Age
children
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Participant_Condition
autism spectrum disorders .
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Participant_Age
children
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Participant_Condition
Autism Spectrum Disorders ( ASD
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Participant_Sample-size
50
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Participant_Age
children
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Participant_Condition
ASD
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Participant_Age
age range 3 to 5 years
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Participant_Age
Children
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Participant_Condition
ASD