Music can help him to increase his
attention to verbal stimuli and to provide a basis for under
standing the abstractions involved. Nathan has stated, "if
the right cerebral-hemisphere knows something the left does
not, then where does "I" come in?"'*'
Communication is essential for the person to live in
relationship with others and language is one of our most
human methods of communicating. The longer the autistic
child stays in a state of non-language, the greater are the
chances that he w ill remain separate from the rest of the
world