Music may help improve social communication as well as auditory-motor brain connectivity in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), new imaging research suggests. In a study of 51 children with ...

Music therapy has been used for decades to help children with autism spectrum disorder improve their impulse control and social and communications skills. Teaching them how to beat out repetitive ...

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) — Ethan Jones thinks he was playing the piano. "I was with someone, and we were in a room, and we were just playing a piano," Jones, 23, a resident of New York, said of his first ...

“When you’re autistic, it’s really hard to do what everyone else does.” When 22-year-old Kodi Lee took to the stage for his America’s Got Talent audition in May, 2019, the world stood up and took ...

Band Together Erie creates opportunities for autistic individuals to create and perform music or just socialize and have fun ...

As a psychologist as well as a linguist, I am fascinated by the idea of how music and language can shape our brain, and how our brain attunes to musical and speech sounds differently. I study this ...