Effectiveness of Music Therapy for Speech Delay and Prosody Disorder in Children With Autism

Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

This research is a single-blind randomized controlled trial, where the investigators plan to recruit 40 children with autism, randomly divided into two groups. The music therapy intervention group will receive an hour of group music therapy in addition to traditional language therapy. The control group will receive only traditional language therapy. The trial will last for 8 weeks, and participants in both groups will be assessed before and after the trial. During the study, the investigators will use professional recording equipment to record their speech and use the speech analysis software to objectively compare whether there are significant differences in prosody between the two groups of children with autism before and after the intervention. Besides the acoustic measurement the investigators also assess the language abilities autism trait performance, adaptive function, emotional behavior, and parent-child stress levels.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 3
Maximum Age: 5
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:

• children with autism

• aged 3-5 y/o

• children with speech delay (T-score of Preschool Language Scale \< 40)

• Mandarin as first language

Locations
Other Locations
Taiwan
National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-chu branch
RECRUITING
Hsinchu
Contact Information
Primary
Chih-en Liu, university
G03486@hch.gov.tw
886-3-5326151
Backup
Shu-mei Yang, MD
b99401109@gmail.com
886-972653754
Time Frame
Start Date: 2024-01-17
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-12-31
Participants
Target number of participants: 40
Treatments
Experimental: Music therapy group
Active_comparator: Control group
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: National Taiwan University Hospital

This content was sourced from clinicaltrials.gov