فعالية برنامج تدريبي لتحسين الوظائف التنفيذية للأطفال ذوي اضطراب التوحد

Abstract EN

The problems faced by children with autism are many, and the most prominent of these problems are deficiencies in executive functions, which makes them face great difficulties in planning and organizing, working memory, mental flexibility, self-monitoring, and weakness of the hand, which results in problems in caring for themselves in an acceptable way or unable to perform useful tasks on his own, or maintain normal social relations, regardless of the integrity of his cognitive abilities.

the defect in cognitive functions most likely includes specific areas, while the executive function deficiency is general affecting all aspects of behavior, and the study aims to improve the executive functions of children with autism, and the study sample consisted of (10) children with autism who were divided into two groups.

equivalent (experimental group and control group) each group includes (5) children whose ages ranged between (6-9) years, an IQ factor of (65-70), a simple degree of autism from (30-35), and a scale of executive functions (preparation al-Rifai, 2016), and the training program to improve executive functions, and the results of the study resulted in the effectiveness of the training program in improving the executive functions of children with autism, and the study concluded on the importance of improving the executive functions of children with autism.