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How does music benefit autistic individuals?

I attended an excellent and thought provoking Chamberfest West concert. Narrated by CBC’s Tom Allen, “The Music of Talk” explored the connection between music and speech. I was fascinated to hear music’s relationship to speech and language development, and the affect of music on the brain’s amygdala. Music stimulates the amygdala in a similar way to faces, smells and other…

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