How to Teach a Child with Autism to Communicate using Music

This music therapy video illustrates how motivating and rewarding music can be for a child with autism. You can use this motivation to work on communication goals.

[rahulrathan]

God bless the childs mother for willing to participate in this video.

[kamaljitvij]

I am so much motivated and learned good strategies from your video Ryan! We saw so many videos of you in our course. Thank you !!

[Ryantalope]

Very interesting. I too am considering branching from music education into music therapy.

[keithamores]

the tip you gave sir when about the physical prompting and verbal prompting and how you slowly move towards the elbow until no more help is very helpful... thats my issue now.... how to let them play on their own.... pls.. help me sir.. i dont have a proper syllabus for them... some of them are verbal some are non verbal... and want to help them more but i feel inadequate.. .the autism cases in brunei is high..

[keithamores]

Hello, thank you for sharing this video. I sometimes have challenges as i havent had formal training.. and now im teaching more than 10 autistic children in Brunei.. hope i can ask for some advises. hope to get in connected with you personally sir...

[sapnaroy]

Nice... My son is autistic...thanks for sharing

[reneschmidt]

Hi Ryan, can you please share the name of the app you use with yes or no prompts? Thanks! And great work!!

[madelinedixon]

Hey thanks for the video! How did you teach him to not touch the piano keys while you play? I have a student this may work with because he loves music, but he likes to play the keyboard himself so I'm not sure how to prevent this from being a distraction. Thanks!