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SUMMARY:Autism-CHIME: Can music therapy support autistic children’s comm
 unication skills or anxiety? - Claire Howlin\, Trinity College Dublin
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CONTACT:Saashi Bedford
DESCRIPTION:Improvisational music therapy involves the therapist and child
  spontaneously co-creating music together\, using singing\, playing and mo
 vement. Music therapists and parents report positive outcomes and advocate
  for the inclusion of music therapy as a standard support for autistic chi
 ldren. However a recent meta-analysis of the effectiveness of music therap
 y was inconclusive for a number of outcomes (Geretsegger et al.\, 2022)\, 
 so it is not yet clear if music therapy is effective. To address the short
 coming of previous studies\,  this talk introduces a large longitudinal ra
 ndomised controlled trial of improvisational music therapy for autistic ch
 ildren aged 7 – 11 (The Autism-CHIME study) taking place in school setti
 ngs. This study uses an outcome measure (BOSCC) for social communication t
 hat is sensitive to change over time\, which will help to clarify previous
  findings. Uniquely the Autism-CHIME study will also examine the impact of
  music therapy on autistic children’s anxiety\, wellbeing\, to identify 
 if music therapy could be used to support emotion regulation\, which is of
 ten a primary concern for families. Additionally this study will account f
 or a number of individual characteristics [IQ\, Musicality\, Cognitive Sty
 le]\, to investigate if the heterogeneity observed in music therapy effect
 iveness is related to individual characteristics.
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