Music Education Research, The Role Of The Treatment Of Children With Autism

According to the psychological and physiological characteristics of 4 autism children aged from 3-5,the research paper scheme out some music teaching activities for experiments.The author advances autism children's mentality and intervention framework about the implementation of music teaching activities, which bases on the analysis of the theory and practice for existing research results.The article focuses on the researching object of 4 autism children aged from 3 to 5 in Nanjing OP Children's Developing Camp. A series of music courses are designed for experimental teaching to investigate the therapeutic and educational function of music activities for autism children. Before the experiment, data of CARS, ATEC, living background and musical background are collected. During the experiment, each of the experimental subjects takes music courses which last 35minutes each time, once a week, 24 weeks in total. After the experiment, interviews with parents and teachers, and ATEC data measurement as well, are used as the support and supplement to the research findings.The research findings indicate that music activities have positive effects on language communication, cognition, health and social intercourse status, especially on language communication, in the 4 individual cases. On this basis, two proposals are offered to the music education to autism children: diversified teaching activities in accordance with student interest need to be arranged according to the students'behavioral characteristics; teaching-related hardware and software need to be improved. In addition, reflection on the selection of experimental subjects, the process of experiment, and the application of the research findings, is made in the hope that the present research can be used as reference by related researchers.This article is divided into six parts. The introduction elaborates the related research background and basis. The first chapter outlines the autism in children as well as music therapy. The second and the third chapters describe the process of the experiment and the analysis of the results. The forth chapter summarizes the research and gives prospects for music education for autism children.The epilogue summarizes the whole article.