The effect of an education program on developing communication skills and some basic motor skills among children with autism spectrum disorder

Abstract

The purpose of the research was to measure how well an educational program helped ASD children with their basic communication and motor skills. In addition to determining the degree of the program's effectiveness in improving children with ASD's basic communication and motor skills after one month of participation. 40 children with ASD were split evenly between two groups of 20 (experimental) and 20 (control). The post-measurement communicative skills scale and basic motor skills mean scores of the control and experimental groups showed substantial statistical differences, favoring the experimental group. The study also revealed substantial statistical differences in the experimental groups mean scores in communication skills and basic motor skills before and after the program's implementation, favoring the dimensional measurement. Additionally, neither the post-test nor the follow-up assessments of the experimental group's communication skills or basic motor skills revealed any statistically significant changes.

Keywords: Educational Program, Communication Skills, Basic Motor Skills, ASD