Dempsey, Ian, Phil Foreman. “A Review of Educational Approaches for Individuals with Autism.” International Journal of Disability, Development & Education 48 (Mar 2001): 103-116.

This article starts out explaining what exactly autism is and a lot of the theories for possible causes. From there it breaks down the different known methods of therapies for children and adults with autism – including sensory integration training, auditory integration training, and music therapy. It then goes on to discuss applied behavior analysis, communication therapy, multi-treatment programs, and play and group therapy. It discusses what these therapies are all used for and the effectiveness that it has with certain types of disorders in which autism is included.

Clarkson, Ginger. “Creative Music Therapy and Facilitated Communication: New Ways of Reaching Students with Autism.” Preventing School Failure. 38 (Fall 1994): 31.

This article recounts a case study of an autistic man named Jerry. The person conducting the research did a study of Jerry in which she gave him music therapy sessions over a period of time. It tells about the progresses he made with it. In the end, it was proven that music and facilitated communication in combination work well in some cases.

Boso, Marianna, Enzo Emanuelle, Vera Minazzi, Marta Abbamonte, and Pierluigi Politi. “Effect of Long Term Interactive Music Therapy on Behavior Profile and Musical Skills in Young Adults with Severe Autism.” Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 13 (Sep 2007): 609-712.

This article studied whether or not music training had an effect behavioral and musical skills in people with sever autism. It was based off of interactive music therapy sessions. They used two different scales to judge the effects. Over a 52 week period, they subjects were given the therapy. At the end, they all showed significant improvement.

Wigram, T., and C. Gold. “Music therapy in the assessment and treatment of autistic spectrum disorder: clinical application and research evidence.” Child: Health, Care, and Development 32 (Sep 2006):535-542.

This article provides an overview of exactly how music therapy works with children who have autism. It shows and proves that in many different case studies music therapy has been used with many different subjects and has proven to be a success with the majority of the people studied.

Wimpory, Dawn C. and Susan Nash. “Musical interaction therapy: Therapeutic play for children with autism.” Child Language Teaching and Therapy 15 (1999): 17-28.

This article talks about the interactions between parents and autistic infants with the use of music therapy. It discusses the different forms of interactions and the role of the music in the therapy. They also talk about a particular case study of a three year old girl with autism and the effects that music therapy had on her over a period of two years.

Heaton, Pamela. “Pitch memory, labelling and disembedding in autism.” Journal of Psychology & Psychiatry & Allied Discipline 44 (May 2003): 543-551.

This study was about the ability of autistic savants to label pitches and individual tones. In essence it is talking about them having perfect pitch. They could also pick out individual tones in a chord.

Baker, Felicity. “Review of Music Therapy, Sensory Integration and the Autistic Child.” International Journal of Disability, Development and Education 50 (Sep 2003): 351-353.

This article describes the type of intervention that is supposed to help autistic children achieve a sensory balance. It includes descriptions of different types of interventions that can be used to target specific sensory differences. It includes lots of cases to help show the potential outcomes.

Duffy, Barbara and Ray Fuller. “Role of Music Therapy in Social Skills Development in Children with Moderate Intellectual Disability.” Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities 13 (2000): 77-89.

This article does not specifically talk about autism, but it talks about the use of music therapy with intellectual disabilities of all sorts. It specifically talked about the development of the social skills in these individuals. They studied the subjects for over an 8 week period and targeted 5 specific areas of skills. The results reflected significant improvements in all of the individuals in those five targeted areas.

Hagedorn, Victoria S. “Special Learners: Using Picture Books in Music Class to Encourage Participation of Students with Autistic Spectrum Disorder.” General Music Today 17 (2004): 46-51.

This article discussed using picture books to help encourage children with autism to participate in class. It also includes other various ways to help teach music to students with autistic disorders. It has a list of books that may help encouraging movement in those students.

Orr, Tracy Jo and Brenda Smith Myles. “The Impact of Rhythmic Entertainment on a Person with Autism.” Focus on Autism & Other Developmental Disabilities 13 (Fall 1998): 163.

This one specifically talks about female children with autism and how their behavior can be affected by music. It talks about why metered music is effective. It goes into details about the meter and tempo of the music and how it is sometimes used as a relaxation tool for these children. It tracks the case study of an 11 year old female who this technique was tested upon. The study was deemed not exactly conclusive as to whether it was a success or failure.