Table of Contents -- Introduction Kenneth E. Bruscia -- Case Examples of Music Therapy for Autism and Rett Syndrome -- CASE ONE Addressing Core Features of Autism: Integrating Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy With The Developmental, Individual-Difference, Relationship-based Dir®/Floortime™ Model John A. Carpente -- CASE TWO Music Therapy for a Nonverbal Autistic Adult Ginger Clarkson -- CASE THREE Establishing Communication with a Boy With Autism Utilizing Recorded Music Barbara J. Crowe -- CASE FOUR Melodic Song as Crying-Rhythmic Song as Laughing: A Case Study of Vocal Improvisation with an Autistic Child Gianluigi di Franco -- CASE FIVE The Girl Who Barked: Object Relations Music Psychotherapy With an Eleven-Year-Old Autistic Female Janice M. Dvorkin Misty D. Erlund -- CASE SIX Original Song Drawings in the Treatment Of A Developmentally Disabled, Autistic Young Man Rosemary G. Fischer -- CASE SEVEN Henry's Transition through Music Rika Ikuno -- CASE EIGHT Sharing Sessions with John Anna Jones Amelia Oldfield -- CASE NINE Off-Beat Music Therapy: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Autism Edith Lecourt -- CASE TEN Meeting Rich: Individual Music Therapy with a Man Who Has Severe Disabilities Roia Rafieyan -- CASE ELEVEN Unravelling Hidden Resources of a Girl with Rett Syndrome Cochavit Elefant -- CASE TWELVE Music Therapy for a Girl with Rett's Syndrome: Balancing Structure and Freedom Tony Wigram.