Music therapy is a young and rapidly growing discipline, especially in Western culture. It is a form of therapy that makes use of the comprehensive impact of music and its elements to fulfil the social, educational, emotional and cognitive needs of the individual. In music therapy, each and every participant is subjected to the influence of a range of methods and techniques, regardless of age, origin, sex, disturbance or disabilities. Music therapy is a therapeutic process, and it also supports other forms of therapy and/or rehabilitation. One of the disturbances which music therapy might be particularly helpful for is autism. Children with autism have problems with verbal and nonverbal communication: they are not able to sustain and initia...