The Effect of auditory skills training on the overall outcome of children with Autism spectrum disorder

Abstract

Music in the form of rhythm and pattern can be used as a form of adjuvant intervention alongside other forms of therapy to help improve the auditory skills, sensory perception, and communication of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In this study music has played a role in improvement in some of the skills of children with ASD in regards to auditory discrimination of rhythmic pattern of musical stimuli, auditory attention, as well as auditory memory. The use of music has also improved the perception of auditory sensory stimuli. All these skills play an important role in the general improvement of children with ASD in regards to speech and language, non-verbal communication, as well as the child’s behavior. This in turn will lead to an overall level of improvement in all skills. Children with ASD perceive music much easier than language as it is the simple form of language, thus therapist-child and parent-child interaction might improve. In addition, the integration of the component of the eyes closed in our intervention may help the improvement in the isolation of the auditory skills in children with ASD. This will further encourage the child to only use the auditory skills to detect perceived auditory stimuli as it is mentioned in previous