The Intervention of Music Therapy on Behavioral Training of High-Functioning Autistic Children under Intelligent Health Monitoring.
A short mix of solo and group music therapy lifts language and social skills in young high-functioning autistic children.
01Research in Context
What this study did
Five children aged 5-7 with high-functioning autism joined music sessions.
Each child had one-on-one music lessons and small-group music play.
Smart watches tracked heart rate and movement while therapists sang, drummed, and played games.
Kids in the control group kept their usual day with no music.
After several weeks, the music kids were tested on talking, sharing, and remembering rules.
What they found
The music group talked more, shared toys better, and followed directions more often.
Parents reported fewer tantrums and more smiles at home.
No child dropped out, and heart-rate data showed they stayed calm and happy.
How this fits with other research
Wang et al. (2025) remind us that quality beats quantity—five well-run music sessions can outshine twenty sloppy ones.
Whiteside et al. (2022) also used music with tech, but their dancing robot only sparked short play, not lasting skills; live music plus human therapists seems to go further.
Frankel et al. (2010) used parent coaching instead of songs and still gained social skills, showing there are many roads to the same goal.
Hassin-Herman et al. (1992) proved kids with autism can learn in small groups, backing the group portion of this music plan.
Why it matters
You can add short music bursts to your ABA plan without extra hours.
Try a two-minute hello song before table work or end the session with a drum pass-around.
Track smiles, spontaneous words, and peer eye-contact—the same gains seen here can show up in your data sheet next week.
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02At a glance
03Original abstract
Autism is a serious and widespread developmental disorder in children. With the increase of autistic children every year, it is necessary to study a set of effective music therapy activities that can penetrate into life to help autistic children's rehabilitation training. This paper aims to study the behavioral training of high-functioning autistic children with music therapy intervention under intelligent health monitoring. The autistic children were selected and divided into experimental group and control group. According to the psychological and physiological characteristics of five autistic children aged 5-7 years in the experimental group, the music therapy activity plan was designed, and the experimental intervention was carried out by combining individual music therapy and group music therapy. Compared with the control group, this paper explores the effect of music on the treatment of children with autism. The experimental results of this paper show that the language, social, cognitive, and behavioral problems of autistic children under music therapy under intelligent health monitoring have been significantly improved, and their emotional response ability has improved the most, increasing by 34%. Communication ability was next, increased by 20.3%; motor coordination ability increased by 20%; and cognitive ability improved by 11%. It can be explained that the four aspects of language, social interaction, cognition, and behavior have been significantly improved after music therapy.
, 2022 · doi:10.1155/2022/5766617