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Advances in medicine have led to a significant increase in human life expectancy and, therefore, to a growing number of disabled elderly people who need chronic care and assistance [1]. The World Health Organization reports that the world's population over 60 years old will double between 2000 and 2050 and quadruple for seniors older than 80 years, reaching 400 million [2]. In addition, strokes, traffic-related and other accidents, and seemingly endless wars and acts of terrorism contribute to an increasing number of disabled younger people.

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Mind and consciousness are like a gradual sunrise that takes time to come up. In the meantime, we are not stagnant, waiting for life to happen. The music of life, felt with our bodies, long before we identify mind with self...some of us stay here longer than others. Music in its broader sense is everywhere, and it is our first language...it has the most important of all places in the lives of those who find the realm of the mind a place of rusty cogs and heavy effort.-Donna Williams, (from the preface of [11], with a review by Max E. Valentinuzzi in [12])O ne symptom common to all types of autism is an inability to easily communicate and interact with others. In fact, some people with autism are unable to communicate at all. Others may have difficulty interpreting body language or holding a conversation.

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