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A Preliminary Study on the Effectiveness of a Developmental, Individual-Difference, and Relationship-Based Model in Improving the Receptive Language of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Saeed Ghasemi   , Amir Amaniyazdi 1, Ali Mashhadi |
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Objective: This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a developmental, individual-difference, and relationship-based (DIR) model in the improvement of receptive language in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Method: The present applied and quasi-experimental study was conducted with the one-group pretest-posttest design. The study population consisted of all children aged 3-8 years with ASD selected by convenience sampling according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. The intervention was held twice a week for at least twenty-six 45-minute sessions. The Childhood Autism Rating Scale and Newsha Developmental Scale were used as pre- and post-tests. A separate post-test session was held after the treatment sessions were over. Paired-samples t-test was employed for data analysis. Results: Results revealed that the treatment based on the DIR model significantly promoted the receptive language skill of children with ASD (p≤0.05).
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| Keywords: Developmental, individual-difference, and relationship-based (DIR) model, Receptive language skill, Autism spectrum disorders |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2016/09/10 | Accepted: 2017/06/4 | Published: 2017/06/4
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