Deficiency in social skills is a characteristic factor in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In children, this has a great impact in various areas due to the inevitability of constantly finding themselves in social environments. Taking this situation into account, the importance of finding a treatment that allows working on such aspects is highlighted. Thus, the aim of the study is to determine the effectiveness of music therapy (MT) on social skills (SS) of children with ASD. A bibliographic search was carried out in databases such as Web of Science, SpringerLink, Scopus and ScienceDirect, and 10 articles that met the proposed criteria were identified. As result, it was found that most of studies (8) indicate that MT is an effective intervention for the development of SS such as visual attention, joint attention, gestures, commitment, among others, in children with ASD. However, two other ...