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Feasibility randomized controlled trial finds caregiver singing enhances attention and word combination learning in preschool autistic children, suggesting music supports early language acquisition.
Research has shown that autistic individuals often have unusually good musical skills and that combining words and music helps autistic individuals to focus on spoken words. This study tests the idea that music will help with early language learning of preschool autistic children. The results show that when caregivers sing words to autistic children, the children pay more attention to the caregiver than when the words are spoken and that they learn word combinations more easily.
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