Music therapy as a potential treatment approach for the patients with ASD: a systematic review

Abstract

Autism spectrum disorder is a neuronal developmental disorder which is commonly established in the early age of life and persist throughout the lifespan. Currently, there are very little option of pharmacological therapies approved for use in ASD. Mainly the treatment approach is different type of therapies are used like behavioral therapy, occupational therapy, Psychological, Cognitive etc. Music therapy is a kind of occupation approach, which we have systematically reviewed in the article. We have screened the PubMed database for last 10 years RCT under certain criteria we have included keywords such as music, music therapy, RCT, autism, ASD, outcome, masures etc in our search. Over 325 articles were screened and 9 articles were included in the study after application of all criteria of flirtation. We found out music therapy effective in patients with ASD specially in social communicational development which includes social intersection skills, nonverbal communicative skills, parent interaction and social-emotional reciprocity.