The use of music to engage children with autism in a receptive labelling task.

Highlights: [•] We compared an intervention using sung and spoken instructions. [•] Children with autism were more engaged in the sung condition. [•] There was a correlation between levels of engagement and language learning. [•] There was wide variability in engagement levels between participants. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

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