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Tehnici de muzicoterapie neurologică pentru dezvoltarea limbajului la copiii cu tulburare din spectrul autismului

Language development through neurological music therapy in children with autism spectrum disorder

Cristina BĂLAȘ-BACONSCHI, Maria MOLDOVAN
Abstract

Neurological Music Therapy (NMT), as a model of music therapy identifies techniques that have been incorporated into medical settings. Thaut and Hoemberg (2014) describe NMT as the use of standardized treatment techniques as interventions that are founded on scientific research. The techniques of NMT provide the therapeutic application of music to cognitive, sensory, and motor dysfunctions used as a method to treat neurological diseases. The present study is focused on the use of neurological music therapy to enhance language development and to improve cognitive functioning and motor skills. The study is quite new for the Romanian literature, due to the fact that the techniques included in neurological music therapy have not been used for children with ASD. Our group consisted of two preschool children diagnosed with ASD, for whom we applied the Isolated Sounds Assessment Sheet, the Portage Test, and the Musical Communicative Rating Form before and after the implementation of the music therapy program. At the same time, the children were observed during all the therapy sessions. The results confirm our assumptions, the level of development of the linguistic area will be significantly higher, as well as the articulatory skill level and the cognitive and sensory-motor level, at the end of the study.

Keywords: neurological music therapy, language development, autism, communication, cognition.
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DOI:10.26744/rrttlc.2025.11.2.03
Published on line:10/31/2025

Autism, schizofrenie, ADHD. Perspective convergente

Autism, schizophrenia, ADHD. convergent approaches

Bogdana MICLEA
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Over time, continuous efforts have been made to clarify and circumscribe diagnoses of autism, schizophrenia, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The diagnostic split between the 3 disorders dominated psychiatry after the 80s, being still used and recognized as such by the diagnostic manuals. Recently a shift and flexibility of the psychiatric paradigm has been noticed. The categorical perspective on mental illness is gradually complemented by the dimensional one. In the last decade, research in the field of neuroscience and psychology has brought evidence in favor of a partial overlap between ADHD, autism and schizophrenia. The hypothesis of a partial overlap can also be supported by non-medical or psychological theorizations, related to common deficits of symbolic structuring of the psyche in achieving a coherent representation of the world and of one’s own person.

Keywords: autism, schizophrenia, ADHD, diagnosis, partial overlap

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DOI: 10.26744/rrttlc.2021.7.1.08

Published on line: 31/03/2021

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