Design and review of content validity of the joint attentiontraining program For children with autism spectrum disorder

Because Joint attention provides the basis for learning core skills such as language,social communication, playfulness, mind theory, and behavior theory, it has become a target for therapeuticintervention for children with autism spectrum disorder. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identifyand develop the components of a joint attention education program with a synthesis research approach andbased on the principles of timely intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder.

used in this research is qualitative and Synthesis Research. The statistical community of researchsynthesis in this research includes all articles, theses and studies on joint attention training for children withautism spectrum disorder. that with that with the keywords of joint attention training; Joint attention programand autism spectrum disorder through search engines and English-language scientific resource databasesincluding Pup Med, Embase, PsycINFO, ProQuest, Google Scholar, Science Direct, Springer and the keywordsin addition to the above keywords of joint attention training and joint attention program were searched throughMagiran and SID Persian language databases.. Among these, there are 34 research articles in English andPersian, which were selected from among 60 published articles in the period from 2010 to 2021.

After analysis, coding and classification, the research results showed indicators. The componentsof joint attention training for children with autism in the age range of 3 to 5 years have been extracted basedon the components arising from the study of theoretical foundations and research background in the form ofresearch synthesis. Accordingly, joint attention training based on seven basic categories, including attentionrecognition, initiation of joint attention; Response to shared attention; Initiation of behavioral requests;Response to social interaction; The beginning of social interaction and response to behavioral requests issolid, and joint attention exercises and training activities can be designed, implemented and evaluated basedon these components. The content validity of the program in the Waltz and Basel method is generally equal to0.84, which indicates the appropriate and acceptable content validity for this program.