Autism spectrum disorder impacts various aspects of the behavioral phenotype. Even in highly functioning autistic patients, the domains most affected include social behavior, behavioral flexibility, and linguistic development. While the first two are relatively easy to model in laboratory rodents, vocal learning is not within their behavioral repertoire. Conversely, songbirds, such as the zebra finch (Taenopygia guttata), develop their vocal communication (song) through social learning, making them a potentially valuable model for human speech development. Zebra finches, highly social colonial songbirds, are ideal for studying social behavior, with males learning their song from their fathers.In this study, we implemented an in-ovo treatment regime to induce an autistic phenotype in zebra finches. Valproic acid (VPA) was administered to alter neural development during the embryonic stage. After adolescence, several behavioral tests were employed to assess the sociability, group preference, and vocal behavior of the birds. Although the standard sociability test (three-chamber test) is not directly applicable to zebra finches, VPA-treated birds exhibited lower sociability compared to controls. Surprisingly, VPA-treated females, but not males, tended to exhibit reduced sociability compared to controls. Nonetheless, male VPA-treated birds showed effects of VPA exposure too: the song of young (100-150 days old) VPA-treated males differed significantly from that of their fathers compared to control birds suggesting a disorder in vocal learning. This difference persisted even in older birds (more than 200 days old). According to our findings, the zebra finch can serve as a useful model for linguistic development in autistic patients.