Mahboubeh Ghayour Najafabadi
Stanford University of Tehran , Iran
Title: The effects of SPARK program on motor and social skill in children with Autism
Biography
Biography: Mahboubeh Ghayour Najafabadi
Abstract
Purpose: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is one of the most prevalent developmental disabilities in the world. The core characteristics of ASD are deficits in social communication and restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, In addition, children with ASD have been documented to exhibit motor skills and daily life deficit .This study was used intervention in term of their characteristics for better daily life and decreasing their deficits. The purpose of this study was to evaluate The Efficacy of a play in the treatment of children with autism spectrum
Materials and methodology: This study is a quasi-experimental study, In order to, 26 children with a mean age of 5-12 years of with autism were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. They were spent three months training intervention based on Spark program. This study performed along2-stages 1) pretest 3) posttest in terms of ATEC questionnaire. Before testing and statistical analysis, for normality of dependent variables was used Shapiro test. To test hypotheses related to ATEC questionnaire were analyzed by repeated measures analysis of variance.
Finding: The results showed a significant difference between the groups in communication, social interactions and behavior (p <0/05) but this difference was not significant emotional and cognitive awareness (p> 0/05).
Conclusion: Generally it can be said that this spark plays has a positive effect in improvement in clinical symptoms