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Snoezelen. Snoezelen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsnuzələ (n)] ⓘ) or controlled multisensory environment (MSE) is a therapy for people with autism and other developmental disabilities, dementia or brain injury. It consists of placing the person in a soothing and stimulating environment, called the "Snoezelen room", a form of sensory room.
Auditory integration training (AIT) is a procedure pioneered in France by Guy Bérard. Bérard promoted AIT as a cure for clinical depression and suicidal tendencies, along with what he said were very positive results for dyslexia and autism, although there has been very little empirical evidence regarding this assertion. [1][2] AIT typically ...
According to proponents of sensory integration therapy, sensory integrative dysfunction is a common disorder for individuals with neurological learning disabilities such as an autism spectrum disorder, [13] [5] attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, [14] and sensory modulation dysfunction. [15]
Music therapy, an allied health profession, "is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program." [1] It is also a vocation, involving a deep commitment to music and the desire to use ...
The Orff Approach of music education uses very rudimentary forms of everyday activity for the purpose of music creation by music students. The Orff Approach is a "child-centered way of learning" music education that treats music as a basic system like language and believes that just as every child can learn language without formal instruction so can every child learn music by a gentle and ...
The popular book Population One: Autism, Adversity, and the Will to Succeed [21] was released by 17 year old American author Tyler McNamer in August 2013. In the UK, April 2014 saw the BBC broadcast an episode of Horizon entitled "Living with Autism", featuring Uta Frith. [22] [23] The French novel La Surface de reparation was released in 2015.
The ASD Band Film. Okay!: The ASD Band Film. Okay!: The ASD Band Film is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Mark Bone and released in 2022. [1] The film profiles the ASD Band, a Toronto -based group of musicians on the autism spectrum who released their debut EP, and played their first-ever live show in a public venue, in February 2022.
One in 100 people (1%) worldwide [9][10] Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder[a] (ASD), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by symptoms of deficient reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive, and inflexible patterns of behavior. Autism generally affects a person's ability to understand and ...