Autism and Music?

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Benefits-of-Music-Therapy-for-Autism&id=432566

This article provides some great insight into how music therapy helps autistic students. Music therapy has a main purpose-to help exhibit positive change in human behavior. Music therapy includes listening, playing, moving (dancing) or singing. Kids with autism like to keep to themselves, I know this because my nephew has autism. Music therapy allows for autistic kids to engage in human contact without threatening outside interferences. It helps kids with autism interact without necessarily knowing they are doing so.

Music therapy helps in a variety of ways:

-Increased and improved socio-emotional development
-Assists in verbal and non-verbal communication
-Encourages emotional fulfillment
-Teaching social skills
-Improving language comprehension
-Encouraging the desire to communicate
-Encouraging creative self-expression
-Reducing non-communicative speech
-Decreasing echolalia (uncontrolled repetition of words spoken by others)

All in all, music helps!