أثر التدريب على الانتباه المشترك في تحسين المهارات الاجتماعية و التواصل اللفظي لدى الأطفال ذوي اضطراب التوحد مرتفعي الوظيفية

Abstract EN

Purposes: Developing training based on joint attention.

Exploring its effectiveness on social skills and verbal communication of children With High Functioning Autism Disorder.

Exploring the differences in post-test mean ranks between control and experimental groups on social skills and verbal communication.

Participants: Participants were 8 children with high functioning autism disorder from two Schools in Rod El Farag, aged between (108- 132, M= 122.80 months, SD= 9.21) The two groups were of equal number, each with four children, one; an experimental group to which the program was applied, while the other group was the control group.

Both were matched on chronological age, social skills, verbal communication before the start of training.

Statistical Methods: To analyze data , Mann- Whitney (U), Wilcoxon (W), and (Z) Value were employed.

Findings: Findings indicated that there were significant differences between mean ranks of experimental and control groups in post test on Social Skills, and Verbal Communication in favor of the experimental group.