Recommended Articles and Books:

DIR/Floortime TM:
Greenspan, S.I. and Wieder, S. (1997). An integrated developmental approach to
interventions for young children with severe difficulties in relating and communicating. ZERO
TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families, 17 (5): 5-18.

Wieder, S. & Greenspan, S. (2001). The DIR (Developmental, Individual-Difference,
Relationship-Based) approach to assessment and intervention planning. Bulletin of ZERO
TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families, 21(4): 11-19.

Greenspan, S. & Wieder, S. (2001). Asperger’s syndrome: The developmental, individual-
difference, relationship-based (DIR) approach to diagnosis and intervention. The Journal of
Developmental and Learning Disorders, 4 (1): 45-68.

Greenspan, S. I. , &  Wieder, S. (1998). The child with special needs: Encouraging intellectual
and emotional growth.  Cambridge, MA:  Perseus Books.

Greenspan, S. I., & Wieder, S. (2006).  Engaging autism: Using the Floortime approach to
help children relate, communicate and think. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.

Music Therapy and Neurologic Music Therapy:

Brownell, M. D. (2002). Musically adapted social stories to modify behaviors in students with
autism: Four case studies.  Journal of Music Therapy, 39, 117-144.

Nelson, D.L., Anderson, V. G., & Gonzales, A. D. (1984).  Music activities as therapy for
children with autism and other pervasive developmental disorders.  Journal of Music Therapy,
21, 100-116.  

Thaut, M.H. (2003). Neural basis of rhythmic timing networks in the human brain.
Proceedings of the New York Academy of Sciences, 999, 364-373.

Thaut, M. (2005).  Rhythm, music, and the brain.  New York: Routledge.  

Thaut, M.H., Peterson, D.A., & McIntosh, G.C. (2005). Temporal entrainment of cognitive
function: Musical mnemonics induce brain plasticity and oscillatory synchrony in neural
networks underlying memory. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1060, 243-254.  

Whipple, J. (2004).  Music in intervention for children and adolescents with autism: A meta-
analysis.  Journal of Music Therapy, 41, 90-106.
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