Resources

Links

• American Music Therapy Association
• Colorado Association for Music Therapy
• Music improves social communication in autistic children : Engaging in musical activities such as singing and playing instruments in one-on-one therapy can improve autistic children’s social communication skills, improve their family’s quality of life, as well as increased brain connectivity in key networks, according to researchers at Université de Montréal and McGill University.
• Read about some benefits of group therapy : We add the collaborative and communicative properties of music in a group lead by credentialled music therapists . Group therapy can provide many benefits that individual therapy does not.

Files

• ASD, Neurodiversity, Music Lessons CSMTA handout 2017.pdf
  Autism, Neurodiversity and Music Lessons handout, Colorado State Music Teachers Association 2017