Music Therapy in Non-Verbal And Verbal Communication of Children with Multiple Disabilities

INTERVENTION: Music Therapy is a treatment that the patient uses music, sounds, voice and musical instruments in a therapeutic process to develop his capacities and his difficulties. The treatment is focused in the relation between patient‐ music therapist. Thus, music, sounds, voice and musical instruments are the way to promote health benefits for the patient. In this study, each patient will receive 20 sessions of treatment. Each session lasts 30 minutes and happens once a week. Before starting the consultations, all patients will be assessed by Evaluation of Language Development (ELD). In the next moment, it will be executed the randomization and division of patients into two groups (experimental group and control group). After, patients in the experimental group will receive the treatment. Then, the participants in the experimental group and control group will be evaluated again by ELD. Finally, the control group will receive treatment the same way that the experimental group. CONDITION: Forms of communication in children with multiple disabilities PRIMARY OUTCOME: Analyzes of the overall averages of ELD. That is, some comparisons between means that can vary from 49 to 140 points SECONDARY OUTCOME: Analyzes with the averages of each of the two sections, language comprehension and expressive language. INCLUSION CRITERIA: Children with mental disabilities, with losses in motor skills and verbal and nonverbal communication. Children with autistic spectrum disorder secondary, associated with multiple deficiencies of losses in cognitive, motor and communication. Children with multiple disabilities where the main cause was a cerebral palsy.