A group of researchers with the UCLA Tennenbaum Center and other colleagues are embarking to answer this question. Autistic children will participate in a music learning approach which involves singing, chanting rhymes, clapping, dancing, and keeping a beat or playing a rhythm. This 12-week program using the Orff Method is game-like and encourages teamwork. Children will have a chance to combine music while displaying their emotion.
States Istvan Molnar-Szakacs, “The purpose of this work is to provide a means for awakening the potential in every child for being ‘musical’-that is, to be able to understand and use music and movement as forms of expression and, through that, to develop a recognition and understanding of emotions.”
It is hoped that participating in this program austic children will scaffold and enhance other language to social skills. To read more go to: Science Daily Release.
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