فعالية برنامج قائم على الوظائف التنفيذية في تنمية التواصل اللفظي و خفض السلوك غير المرغوب لدى الأطفال ذوي اضطراب طيف التوحد

Abstract EN

The research aimed to reveal the effectiveness of a program based on executive functions in developing verbal communication and reducing challenging Behaviour among children with autism spectrum disorder.

The research sample consisted of (5) children with autism spectrum disorder as an experimental group, (5) children with autism spectrum disorder.

Autism spectrum as a control group, their ages ranged between (6.2-9.6) years with a mean (8.5) and a standard deviation (1.225), and their intelligence ranged between (66-75) with a mean (74.5) and a standard deviation (0.414), and the following tools were applied (Stanford Binh Intelligence Scale - Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnostic Test - Verbal Communication Scale Prepared by Researcher - Undesirable Behavior Scale Prepared by Researcher - Program based on Executive Functions Prepared byResearcher -Measure of Effectiveness of Experimental Procedures Prepared by Researcher), the children of the experimental group were trained On(40) sessions for a period of approximately (10) weeks at a rate of (4) sessions per week, the researcher used the quasi-experimental approach and the Mann Whiteny and Wilcoxon tests were used, and the research reached the following most important results: The scores of the experimental and control groups in verbal communication and the reduction of undesirable behavior in the post-measurement were in favor of the experimental group, and there were no statistically significant differences between the mean ranks of the experimental group's scores in verbal communication and the reduction of undesirable behavior in the post and follow-up measurements