Music Therapy as Autism Treatment

Autism – what, when, why and how?

Well the first 2 questions can be answered. But, the answers of other two are still in a big ambiguity.

Autism is one of the major and alarming diseases of 21st century. Even some years before the number was 1 out of every 150 children, this has abruptly increased to 1 in every 90 infants. The proper reason is still not known though many believe it to be the genetic problems.

Lack of proper development of the brain is the main problem within the autistic kids. The child within their first 3 years of age slowly starts showing the problems.

Starting from the medications to the hyperbaric oxygen treatment... there are many diagnosis for the autism treatment.

However there is one therapy that has been considered by many of the doctors preferring the medications to the hyperbaric treatment center.

It is the music therapy. Just with the help of the soulful music, you can help the autistic children to come out from their crisis.

It's not just playing music or so. It is a complete session that the kid should go through.

According to the recent studies and the research, it shows that, music therapy is helpful in reducing the symptoms of the autism. In addition to this it helps the child to improve the autistic behavior. This is a total planned exercise action that acts positively on the child. The treatment includes the following actions –

• Listening music.
• Music creation.
• Singing with the song tune.
• Dancing along with the beat of the music.
• Playing the different types of musical instrument.

Among the musical instruments, most preference is given to flute playing as the autism treatment. This helps in to recover from the communication problem. Many are found having the communal problem. They can just hum, growl or cries and make sounds indicating the thing they want. With the help of this treatment it can hoped that they can come up with this problem.

These lessons are given in groups. This helps the child to interact with the others. Slowly they learn to interact with others.

However, I think hyperbaric oxygen treatment is also a better option. This is because –

• It does not involve any sort of the medications. So, there is no scope of the side effects.
• The child does not experience any pain and never get hurt.
• They can carry their favorite toys inside the chamber; it helps them to stop thinking about the therapy they are going through.
• Some hyperbaric treatment center allows either of the parent/ guardian to accompany their kids. This helps the child to increase the mental strength.

Doesn't matter what technique you are following; just make sure that you are making your child smile in his toughest situation in this unkind and harsh world.