Improving Communication in Children With ASD

Advances in Early Childhood and K-12 Education - Interventions for Improving Adaptive Behaviors in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-8217-6.ch015 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 250-265

Author(s):

Claudia I. Iacob

Keyword(s):

Social Skills ◽

Communication Skills ◽

Family System ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Adaptive Communication ◽

Program Success ◽

Children With Asd ◽

The Family ◽

Systemic Factors ◽

Robust Evidence

Raising a child with ASD is generally considered a challenging experience for families due to the pervasive difficulties in communication, social skills, and other adaptive behaviors encountered in these children. The family system restructures and adapts to accommodate the needs of the child with ASD. In this chapter, the author highlights the importance of communication skills for the development of children with ASD and summarizes the evidence-based individual interventions for improving them. Although there is robust evidence for the family's beneficial contribution to developing adaptive communication skills in children with ASD, there is still room for uplifting the existing programs in terms of accessibility, efficacy, and culture-based elements. In the final part of the chapter, the author provides recommendations for designing future family interventions addressed to communication skills in children with ASD and argues that culture-specific and systemic factors (such as support policies for children with disabilities) enhance program success.

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Recent Technologies to Improving Social and Communication Skills in Children with ASD: Systematization of Approaches and Methods

Modern Applied Science ◽

10.5539/mas.v9n11p38 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 9 (11) ◽

pp. 38 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Albina Nesterova ◽

Rimma Aysina ◽

Tatjana Suslova

Keyword(s):

Social Skills ◽

Communication Skills ◽

Skills Training ◽

Practical Experience ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Children With Asd ◽

Autistic People ◽

Analytical Work ◽

Spectrum Disorders

<p>In the article recent technologies of formation and development of social and communication skills in children with autism spectrum disorders are analyzed. A systematic review summarizes the most effective and verified interventions of support to socialization of children with ASD: applied behavior analysis (ABA); cognitive-behavioral training (CBT); social stories method; social skills training (SST). We pay special attention to virtual technologies and video simulations so these methods allow to form social skills in children with ASD more efficiently and psychologically safe. Problems and prospects of using virtual technologies for children with ASD needs are discussed.<strong> </strong>The specificity of Russian practical experience and researches in development of heuristic technologies of development of social communication of persons with ASD is described: animal-assisted therapy, somatosensory correction, author art therapy and folk forms of intervention. On the basis of analytical work it is concluded that the gap between theory and practice needs to be neutralized, when scientifically unfounded practical developments are introduced in helping autistic people and researches of scientists are not always verified in an empirical manner.</p>

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ASD Into Adulthood

Advances in Early Childhood and K-12 Education - Cases on Teaching Sexuality Education to Individuals With Autism ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-2987-4.ch006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 99-114

Author(s):

Alison B. Bourdeau

Keyword(s):

Sex Education ◽

Family System ◽

Implementation Process ◽

Family Therapist ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Behavioral Challenges ◽

Target Behavior ◽

The Family ◽

Adults With Asd

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a case study highlighting where lack of explicit sex education for people with ASD poses challenges into adulthood. The case study of represents ecologically valid challenges for adults with ASD and supports that takes into account the family system. Provided is a description of the setting, including the context of the environment that impacts the target behavior through the lens of a family therapist. A review of evidence-based interventions to address behavioral challenges is provided in conjunction with the implementation process and individuals involved.

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Families with a child with ASD and Down syndrome - their attitudes and values

Kwartalnik Naukowy Fides et Ratio ◽

10.34766/fetr.v47i3.905 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 274-285

Author(s):

Krystyna Barłóg

Keyword(s):

Down Syndrome ◽

Intellectual Development ◽

Family System ◽

Disabled Persons ◽

Human Being ◽

Cultural Changes ◽

Children With Asd ◽

Positive Attitudes ◽

The Family ◽

High Level

We are all called to live and improve the world for ourselves and others. Every person, even if he or she is a person with a disability, and with an impaired ability to perceive and understand, is a fully human subject who has an inalienable right to life and development, a right that belongs to every human being. A human being always has his or her dignity and a particular, unquestionable value. The most complete community for every human being is the family. It is the foundation of a fulfilling life, even for a child with such serious dysfunctions as ASD or Down syndrome. Having a child with ASD, or a child with Down syndrome, undoubtedly causes difficulties for the whole family in many areas. Social and cultural changes can affect how a family with a child with ASD or Down syndrome works. Thus, they may affect difficult parenting: motherhood or difficult fatherhood. At the same time, there is still a lack of research and analysis devoted to such families, to the perceived positive changes in the family system as a whole, and in the families themselves. The aim of this analysis is to try to answer the question of what attitudes and values parents of children with ASD and Down syndrome present. The research used the Attitudes Towards Disabled Persons Scale, the Attitudes Towards Disabled Persons Questionnaire and the Axiological Questionnaire by A. Sękowski. The research conducted using a diagnostic survey confirms that families characterised by a high level of moral and religious values present positive attitudes towards people with disabilities, including children with Down syndrome and ASD. Maximum assistance and support should be provided to families with a child with ASD and Down syndrome, in order to enable optimal development of children with ASD and Down syndrome in psychomotor and intellectual development by accepting and stimulating their subjectivity, and securing a space full of love and empathy.

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