AUTISM

Autism



Autism

Introduction

Autism is a developmental disorder whose behavioural characteristics variety on a continuum from gentle to severe. Autism is normally not identified former to age 2 to 3 years and the prognosis for this pervasive developmental disorder is poor. Although there is no documented "cure" for autism, study proposes that it can be organised competently utilising comprehensive behavioural and informative remedy programs. (Sheinkopf 20089)

 

Research Question

What are the most evident and most often cited remedy programs for young children with autism Project TEACCH. Treatment programs having little or no empirical support for example facilitated connection, auditory integration treatment, and sensory integration treatment furthermore are succinctly reviewed.

 

Quasi-Experimental Design

A latest study by Ozonoff and Cathcart (2008) analyzed the effectiveness of a TEACCH home-based program that educated parents how to work with their preschool young children with autism in the dwelling focusing upon learned, cognitive, and prevocational abilities absolutely crucial for school success. The quasi-experimental study did not use random allotment of the 11 young children selecting rather than to agree remedy young children with command young children who obtained a kind of preschool day programs. Further, methodology was compromised because there was no supervising of remedy implementation in the dwelling to double-check TEACCH-trained methods were utilised rightly or utilised at all.

 

Results

Results described an mean of 9.6 months of developmental gain in a time span of four months for remedy assembly young children who obtained direction in the dwelling by parents purportedly utilising TEACCH principles. Children in the remedy assembly illustrated important enhancement relation to controls on 4 of 7 subtests of the PEP-R (Schopler et al., 2000). Results of this enquiry show that dwelling interventions, in supplement to preschool programs, may boost developmental functioning in juvenile young children with autism by expanding the allowance of time the progeny is revealed to remedy (school + home) as well as facilitating generalization of abilities over backgrounds (Ozonoff & Cathcart, 2008).

 

Validity

The values of TEACCH aim upon utilising presumed power in functioning of young children with autism, mainly visual processing, as a base for discovering from and acclimatizing to the environment. Although procedures utilised by TEACCH appear intuitively befitting for autism intervention, empirical clues for the efficacy of TEACCH procedures has not yet been carried out utilising study procedures that command for risks to interior and external validity. Using the Division 12 Task Force criteria and the NIH criteria, TEACCH does not relish the rank ...