تقييم مستوى الفهم السردي البصري اللفظي لدى عينة من الأطفال ذوي اضطراب طيف التوحد بالأردن و علاقته ببعض المتغيرات المنتقاة

Abstract EN

The current study aimed to assess the level of verbal visual narrative comprehension of a sample of children with autism spectrum disorder in Jordan and its relationship to some selected variables.

the study included 120 participants from persons with autism spectrum disorder in Jordan, including 92 males and 28 females.

the number of participants with mild autism spectrum disorder reached 61, the number with moderate was 40, while those with severe autism spectrum disorder reached 19.

to achieve the goal of the study, the researchers constructed a verbal visual narrative comprehension scale, and its validity and reliability were verified.

the results indicated that the general average level of verbal and visual narrative comprehension was moderate.

the results also indicated that there were no statistically significant differences in the total score and all dimensions of the verbal visual narrative comprehension scale according to the gender variable.

the results showed that there were apparent differences between the means of the responses of a sample of children with autism spectrum disorder on the visual-verbal narrative comprehension scale, depending on the severity of the disorder between the mild disability category, the moderate and severe categories, and in favor of the mild.

the study recommended the necessity of conducting an assessment on wider samples and from a variety of age groups and benefiting from visual narrative understanding in designing treatment services for persons with autism spectrum disorder.