Music therapy has been used for decades to help children with autism spectrum disorder improve their impulse control and social and communications skills. Teaching them how to beat out repetitive ...

Music therapists are effective at treating autism. Autistic people think it is wrong of us to try. Perhaps you flinched at my use of the word autistic, as opposed to the more accepted, person-first ...

The percussive skill needed to bang out rhythms on a drum may help improve socializing, inhibition control and focus among teens with autism, new research suggests. The finding follows work with 36 ...

My 28-year-old severely autistic son Nat is a front man in a rock band. Yes, you read that right. And it's a good band, that sometimes is paid for gigs. Yet in Real Life Nat speaks with great ...

The surge in autism diagnoses is often treated as a medical mystery. But it may be better understood as a policy story—one shaped by financial incentives, expanded definitions, and weak oversight. The ...