Music And Play Therapy On Autistic Children's Attention

The purpose of this study is to apply music and play activities for autism students, in order to improve their attention behavior. Five students, including two autism students and three students, were selected from a kindergarten in Kuala Lumpur. Forty-minute music session was given three times per week. The series of music and play activities lasted continually for six weeks.This study was conducted under the Multiple Baseline Across-SubjectsDesigns. "Selective Attention Observation Form" and "Sustained AttentionObservation Form" were applied in this study. In addition, the data of"Social Validity Form" and observation on audio-video records were bothcollected as the data in this study.The study found that the cases significantly improved on their attention behavior. Many suggestions were given in this study:(1) Teacher should arrange pluralism and according with student's interest;(2) The school should substantiate the relevant software and hardware equipment;(3) Teacher should try to making well-relationship with students.In addition, this study also gives many relevant suggestions for further research in the future.