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  1. Hi there.
  2. My name is Holly Russell, and I will be giving
  3. my final presentation.
  4. So my initial research question was, Does music therapy have
  5. a positive effect on building new socio emotional skills with
  6. within or four youth with autism?
  7. And after some revision, um, and need for adjustments?
  8. I changed the question to be more open ended rather
  9. than closed on.
  10. Guy avoided the assumption of a positive effect and also
  11. specified the age range that I wanted to work with
  12. and then came up with the question.
  13. Does music therapy have?
  14. I'm sorry.
  15. How does music therapy have?
  16. How does therapy impact the social responsive behavior for youth
  17. with autism between the ages of four and seven?
  18. Initially, before this topic, my research, what was going to
  19. be more geared towards, um, the manner in which apparent
  20. comforts they're crying child and how that affects their ability
  21. to form healthy relationships later in life.
  22. And this was inspired by Dr Bruce Perry's work from
  23. the boy who's raised as a dog.
  24. But I was unable to find any relevant information to
  25. conduct research on, so I decided to gear my research
  26. more towards the intervention styles for youth with autism spectrum
  27. disorder. And I chose this topic because I enjoy working
  28. alongside youth with ASD.
  29. And I am interested in exploring the various intervention styles
  30. out there that I could implement in the future when
  31. I'm working with youth with ASD and I also enjoyed
  32. music so together it was just a something I had
  33. interesting regarding my position ality.
  34. I'm aware of the fact that I am enabled bodied
  35. and neuro typical student who is researching ways to help
  36. youth with autism build upon their social skills.
  37. Andi, I had to reflect on what my overall goal
  38. was regarding this and some of the biases that I
  39. have regarding the level of social skills that used with
  40. SD have and Thea underlying able ism that kind of,
  41. uh, inspired those those biases and some reflection self reflection
  42. that I had thio have.
  43. And after reflecting on this, I had to understand whether
  44. or not my goal was to help youth or the
  45. people around them and how to make sure that it
  46. was to help youth rather than yeah, the people around
  47. them. Uh, in the past, I have worked alongside youth
  48. with ASD in generalized throwing programs within schools, and I
  49. really, really enjoyed my time there within the school setting,
  50. and this served as sort of an inspiration for part
  51. of the topic.
  52. But I also recognize the importance of understanding that the
  53. youth that I work with in this classroom cannot account
  54. for the entire general population of use with ASD or
  55. people in general with ASD.
  56. And, uh, my interest in music also helped to push
  57. my eagerness to use music to use it as a
  58. therapeutic intervention.
  59. But it's also quite possible that music would be overstimulating
  60. for some youth with ASD, and that would render this
  61. therapy style not beneficial.
  62. So I would have Thio have some background information or
  63. some back up intervention styles that would be more helpful.
  64. I have also never personally attended or engaged in a
  65. music therapy session.
  66. Eso. Any information that I do have regarding this topic
  67. is from articles that are promoting music therapy.
  68. So there is some bias as well regarding my knowledge
  69. towards the topic, and I am a firm believer believer
  70. of doing things with instead of for the clients that
  71. I work with, especially in therapeutic scenarios.
  72. So the way that music therapy is structured to be
  73. a shared learning experience between therapist and client was really
  74. intriguing to me, which kind of also encouraged my, ah,
  75. my research here.
  76. So for my research design again, I wanna work with
  77. youth aged between four and seven and to conduct my
  78. research, I would engage in in a music therapy session
  79. or multiple alongside a therapy certified therapist, and I would
  80. record the sessions to review later.
  81. Rather than solely watching through a one way mirror.
  82. I would hope to be able to engage alongside the
  83. youth to help to build report, um, as well.
  84. By recording the sessions, I would be able to pick
  85. up on extra cues from the students that I might
  86. have missed in person, including maintained eye contact, mirroring behavior,
  87. appropriate body language, you know, turn taking and sharing.
  88. And I would recruit my participants through referrals from ASD
  89. or GOP programs within school settings.
  90. And I would have to discuss with the staff who
  91. work alongside the youth to create an understanding on what
  92. students would most benefit from the intervention.
  93. And I would request for consent from the parents, um,
  94. through emails and phone calls and most importantly, from the
  95. youth themselves, through conversation and written documentation to protect you
  96. know, Children's agency and give them a ZX much power
  97. over the things that happened in their lives as much
  98. as possible.
  99. And following the sessions, I would ask questions.
  100. I would ask follow up questions to be able to
  101. understand the effectiveness of the program.
  102. Thes questions would include Have you noticed an increase in
  103. the positive friendships they have?
  104. Um, it's important that these friendships are positive to give
  105. purpose to the intervention.
  106. You know that these they aren't unhealthy or negative friendships.
  107. Um, also do you are the friendships online or in
  108. person? This would affect the required level of social responsiveness
  109. from the youth, um, not to look down upon online
  110. friendships, but it would just it would have a nif
  111. ect on.
  112. You know, they wouldn't have to make eye contact or
  113. anything like that so it would be easier and also
  114. asked, Do you have any disappointments following the therapy sessions?
  115. And I would use this information to improve the future
  116. intervention set up to benefit wth E.
  117. You said I work with later on, not Saul.
  118. Thank you for listening