How does the music therapy approach increase the verbal and nonverbal interactive skills of students with moderate or severe autism in a structured school setting? Can the prescribed use of music by a trained person produce positive changes in the psychological, physical, cognitive or social functioning of individuals with health or educational problems? If so, how can it improve the quality of life of students with autism later in life? Music therapy has been shown to be an adequate mediation for emotional awareness deficiencies in autism. According to Zoller, “using music with children can expose them to a multisensory experience that enhances many skills and impacts their development of speech and language skills.” (p.273) And I believe that music can be considered as a universal language, because the cognitive components are responsible for a non-harmful environment and music can help integrate the social and academic progress of each individual. In 1990, the United States Congress renamed the Education of the Handicapped Act to the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA, PL 101 -476). One of the changes in the new law included the addition of autism to the list of disabilities that qualify a student for special education services in a public school (Armstrong & Darrow, 1999). Bunton-Pierce and Dunlap (1999), classified autism as a developmental disorder, which affects a person's ability to communicate verbally and non-verbally, whether it be understanding language, playing and interacting with individuals. . Leo Kanner diagnosed autism in 1943. Kanner estimated that autism occurs in approximately four in ten thousand children (Kanner, 1943). Autism is “the second most common developmental disability… even more common than Down sy… center of paper… movements. This shows us that music therapy can be effective with children in distinguishing recognition emotions. It is possible that an essential music module could help enormously in the recognition of emotions such as happiness and sadness in a musical context. It may not be the most powerful for strengthening recognition of other emotions, so it may be necessary to incorporate other forms of musical intervention to show therapy progress. Therapeutic relationships between two people and the encoding of a certain tone or tone in sessions could have several benefits rather than simply promoting emotion recognition. We may see long-term effects such as promoting a multisensory experience by synchronizing sensory neurons that mark suboptimal functions in autism. In the long term, use brain imaging tools to track sensory neurons and understand the effects of music therapy.