CONSTRACION SCALE FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN

Abstract

Autism is considered as one of the most developmental  problems  in the world that interfere with children growth and affect their social ,emotional and cognitive development child with autism used to be normal in his growth but in his development parents started to notice that their child characterize by loneliness and withdrawal himself from the surrounding world with some mannerism behaviors these characteristics used to be manifested children during the 1^st  three year of their life .  It appears, one in every 500 birth (The American International Institution for child health 1997. and it would be less in females than makes at 1/4 percent .

    Aim is to build the autism scale     for children   , and the total population of (Rami,AL-amal,AL-saadah) institutes for handicapped in Baghdad were 447 children (boys and girls) (400)children (boys and girls ) were chosen randomly to fulfill the requirement of the study, children were from3-13 years old at academic year 2006/2007 .  210 of them Males and 237 females. (18) teachers from the above  institutes chosen    to apply ,.                                                                                                       

   The scale to be applied for autistic children is consist of  five elements ,1^st element is (language and communication is weighted 27% , 2^nd element is visual understanding of the child weight  13% ,3^rd element is social adaptation of the child that weight 20%,4^th is  effervescence behavior weight  20% , and finally the 5^th element which is gross and fine motor skill  assessment that weight 20%, ).                                                             and it has been (90) items were formulated and then  (10) of the formulated items were omitted and only (80)  items were discovered to be reliability  and validity , Pearson correlation coefficient while the scale reliability has been done in two  ways  ( test Re test , Alfa Cronbach) were used to analyze the result. and the standard error of the scale has been extracted which leads for some recommendation and suggestions of them is to benefit of the research indigenizing autism children in primary schools .