فاعلية برنامج تدريبي مقترح لتنمية مهارات التواصل غير اللفظي لدى أطفال مصابين باضطراب طيف التوحد

Abstract EN

The current study aimed to finding out the effectiveness of a proposed training program in developing non-verbal communication skills among a sample of 6 children with autism spectrum disorder, aged between 4 and 7 years old.

Semi-experimental, approach was used to know the effect of the independent variable.

To achieve the objective of the study, we use The Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) to ensure the homogeneity of the sample (mild autism) - A questionnaire has been developed too to measure non-verbal communication skills (developed by researchers) and a training program in developing non-verbal communication skills (developed by researchers).

The results showed statistically significant difference between the pre and post assessments of non-verbal skills favoring the post application.

This shows the effectiveness of the proposed training program.