Designing an Educational App and its Effectiveness on Improving Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Signs
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Abstract:
Introduction

Autism disorder is a disorder characterized by stereotypic behaviors associated with social failure disorders. The purpose of this study was to design an educational application and its effectiveness in reducing the syndrome of children with autism.

Methods

It was a quasi-experimental study (pre-test, post-test with control group). The statistical sample of this study was 30 autistic children aged 7 to 12 years with autism who were randomly divided into intervention and control groups. First, both groups were subjected to pretest by Garz test. Then, the intervention group was trained under 10 sessions of one hour, but the control group did not take any activity and at the end of the Garz test as a post-test, they were used on both groups. Data were analyzed using covariance analysis.

Results

Research findings showed that there is a significant difference the mean of the intervention group and the control group in the posttest after moderating the mean of the pretest, and the application of the mean score of the intervention group in social, social, and social skills was 5.93, 4.87, 4.8 in the pretest to 3.13, 2.4 and 2.87 in the post-test (P < 0.001).

Conclusions

The results show that the performance of communication, social skills and stereotypical behaviors has been enhanced with the use of the Picture Exchange Communication Systems (PECS) and the use of this application can be used in teaching children autism spectrum.

Language:
Persian
Published:
Journal of North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Volume:11 Issue: 3, 2019
Pages:
22 to 29
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