Saeed Rezayi; Yasaman Alizadeh
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Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of virtual sensory rehabilitation (Tele rehabilitation) in the home environment on reducing stereotyped and impulsive behaviors of autistic children during the coronavirus pandemic. The research method for data collection was quasi-experimental ...
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Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of virtual sensory rehabilitation (Tele rehabilitation) in the home environment on reducing stereotyped and impulsive behaviors of autistic children during the coronavirus pandemic. The research method for data collection was quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design with control group. The statistical population included all families of children with autism at the Autism Center of Tehran on 2020. Out of the total population, 16 families with autistic children who were in home quarantine were selected as a sample and randomly assigned to the experimental (n = 8) and control (n = 8) groups. The Budfish (2000) scale was used to collect data. Analysis of covariance with application assumptions was used to analyze the data. The rehabilitation program of sensorimotor exercises was performed in 21 consecutive sessions in four months for the experimental group. The results showed that the tele rehabilitation program significantly improved the challenging behaviors of autistic children in the family environment at the level of P <0.01, due to the vulnerability of autistic children to the corona virus and the closure of rehabilitation centers and to prevent regression and exacerbation. Behaviors of autistic children and also due to the effectiveness of the tele rehabilitation program, the use of this program at home is recommended, of course, with all the points of professional rehabilitation.
farhad ghadiri; esmaeil soleimani
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to design and determine the effectiveness of educational package of executive functions on improving the levels of theory of Mind in children with high Performance autism spectrum disorder. Method: The research method is semi-experimental with post-test pre-test ...
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to design and determine the effectiveness of educational package of executive functions on improving the levels of theory of Mind in children with high Performance autism spectrum disorder. Method: The research method is semi-experimental with post-test pre-test with control group. The statistical population of the present study was children with autism disorder aged 6 to 12 years in Urmia (274 people) in the academic year of 2019-20 were from the exceptional school for children with autism, out of the target population, Out of the total target population 40 high-performance autism were selected using Gilliam Autism Rating Scale(Gilliam,1995) and randomly assigned to two experimental (20) and control (20) groups, and the Hutchins Mind Theory Questionnaire(Hutchins et al., 2012) was completed by parents of both groups. After performing the pre-test, the experimental group was trained in the executive functions program. The program was designed by researchers and consisted of 24 sessions in which 4 skills (working memory, inhibition, flexibility and attention training) were taught, At this stage, the children in the control group did not receive any training. The post-test was performed again and the data obtained from the pre-test and post-test were analyzed using analysis of covariance.Results: The data showed a significant difference(p < 01) between the control and test groups in the post-test of variable theory of Mind scores after adjusting the effect of pre-test of theory of Mind .Conclusion: Based on this study, it can be suggested that improving the executive functions can increase the levels of theory of Mind.
arash bahrami; hossain mohagheghi; Abolghasem yaghubi
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The purpose of the present research was a review of the effect of instructing negative emotion management skills on parents’ anxiety thoughts with autistic children. Method of research was quasi-experimental, and its type is a pretest-posttest design without control group. Population of the study ...
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The purpose of the present research was a review of the effect of instructing negative emotion management skills on parents’ anxiety thoughts with autistic children. Method of research was quasi-experimental, and its type is a pretest-posttest design without control group. Population of the study consisted of all parents of children with pervasive developmental disorders in the “Zehne Ziba” Medical Center in Hamedan, that their number was 80. Initially, they asked parents by invitation, if they would be interested in attending to training courses in workshops of training negative emotion management, and they declared their readiness. Then, volunteer parents were assessed by the tests of anxiety thoughts, and were present parents with anxiety thoughts in this study which their number was 40. In this study anxiety thoughts questionnaire of Wells were used. The results showed that negative emotion management skills training were effective to reduce the parents’ anxiety thoughts with autistic children, and finally they were confirmed.
