Families with young children with and without developmental disabilities often create a musically rich home environment. Parent-child music engagement, like singing play songs, is associated with positive outcomes for children, parents, and their relationship. However, little is known about if the home music environment differs across diagnostic groups and if parent-child music engagement relates to parent-child affective attachment across families of diagnostically diverse children. Using an online questionnaire, the current study examined the home music environment of 340 families with young children with typical and atypical development. A variety of musical activities were common in all diagnostic groups. Diagnostic groups differed in active musical engagement, potentially relating to the differing phenotypes of various developmental disabilities. Parent-child music engagement was associated with parent-child affective attachment, even when controlling for relevant variables. Promoting musical engagement at home and through parent-child therapy may be an accessible way to support parent-child relationships.

有或没有发育障碍的幼儿的家庭通常会创造一个音乐丰富的家庭环境。亲子音乐参与，就像唱游戏歌曲一样，可以给孩子、父母及其关系带来积极的结果。然而，对于不同诊断群体的家庭音乐环境是否有所不同，以及亲子音乐参与是否与不同诊断儿童的家庭中的亲子情感依恋有关，人们知之甚少。本研究使用在线问卷调查了 340 个有典型和非典型发育幼儿的家庭的家庭音乐环境。各种音乐活动在所有诊断组中都很常见。诊断组在积极的音乐参与方面存在差异，这可能与各种发育障碍的不同表型有关。即使在控制相关变量的情况下，亲子音乐参与度也与亲子情感依恋相关。在家里和通过亲子治疗促进音乐参与可能是支持亲子关系的一种可行方式。