Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
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PhD Student in General Psychology, Department of Psychology, Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, Iran
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, Iran
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Firoozabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Firoozabad, Iran
Abstract
Introduction: The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of the communication skills training and enrichment program on the level of social responsiveness of parents and to improve the quality of parent-adolescent play and the social communication skills of parents and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.
Materials and Methods: The method of this research was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. Based on this design, subjects were randomly assigned to an experimental group and a control group, and then the experiment was performed. The statistical population included all adolescents with autism spectrum disorders in Shiraz medical centers in 2018. The samples were selected from among the autistic teenagers who were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder by the Fars Province Exceptional Education Evaluation Organization and were randomly assigned to two groups of 20 people, test and control. The data collection tool included the parent-social responsiveness questionnaire (Constantino et al., 2003), improving the social skills of parents and teenagers (Gresham and Elliott, 2008) and the quality of play of parents and teenagers (Frankel and Mintz, 2011), which has formal and content validity. It was approved by professors and its reliability was estimated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 78/81 and 85/85 respectively. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (MANCOVA).
Results: The communication skills training and enrichment program has an effect on the level of social responsiveness of parents and improving the quality of parent-adolescent play and social communication skills of parents and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.
Conclusion
After reviewing the results, the researchers considered the development of comprehensive educational and rehabilitation programs for autistic children and their parents to be necessary and undeniable and stated that the four categories of familiarity with self-help issues, play, cognitive and mental problems of the child, as well as communication skills training should be prioritized. to be dealt with
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