فاعلية برنامج للتخفيف من حدة اللزمات لدى الأطفال الذاتويين

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Introduction: Autism is the most difficult developmental handicap for the child's parents, those around him, and those working in the field of special education.

Because of this disability is characterized by ambiguity and strangeness of behavioral patterns resulting from it, as subjectivity is not limited to being a disorder that can be coexisting with in peace with society, because of its abnormal behavior that causes embarrassment to the caregivers of the child from the view of others.

Objective: The current study aims to test the possibility of intervention in reducing the tics of a sample of autistic children through the following: Preparing a program that works to reduce the severity of tics for autistic children in early childhood at the age of (3- 6) years.

Ensuring the continuity of the program’s impact after the training cessation.

Sample: The sample of the study consisted of 7 autistic children (6 males, female) for the experimental group and their age ranges from (3- 6) years.

Method: The researcher uses the experimental design method and the researcher used the one- group design Instruments: Childhood Autism Rating Scale C.

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S prepared by (Schopler, et al., 1999) modified by (Huda Amin, 2004), The socioeconomic level scale prepared by (Muhammad Saafan, Doaa Khattab, 2016), Yale's Global Scale of Intensity, prepared by (Leckman, et al., 1989) modified by (Amr Muhammad Issa, 2018) and A program to reduce the severity of supplies for autistic children prepared by) the researcher.

Statistical Approaches: Arithmetic mean, Standard deviation, kurtosis, skewness and Wilcoxon Test.

Results: The results of the current study concluded with the effectiveness of the program in reducing the severity of the tics on a sample of autistic children.

Also, the results concluded the continued impact of the effectiveness of the program in reducing the severity of the tics after the end of the follow- up periods, which was estimated at 30 days