Adaptação sócio-comunicativa e Autism Behavior Checklist: correlações com a evolução de adolescentes autistas institucionalizados Social-communicative adaptation and Autism Behavior Checklist: associations in the evolution of institutionalized adolescents with autism
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT Purpose: To verify the existence of correlation between the results found in the Functional Communicative Profile, the social-cognitive performance, the Autism Behavior Checklist, and the social-communicative adaptation along a period of six months. Methods: Participants were eight institutionalized adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders, assessed regarding their functional communicative profile and social-cognitive performance. Parents, caretakers and therapists answered the Social-Communicative Adaptation and the Autistic Behavior Checklist questionnaires in the beginning of the study and six months later. Data were statisti-cally analyzed using non-parametric techniques. Results: Higher scores on the Autistic Behavior Checklist are associated to lower scores on social-cognitive performance and to lower number of communicative acts. Conclusion: There is association between the results in the Autistic Behavior Checklist and the functional communicative profile and the social-communicative performance, but the results in the social-communicative adaptation are not correlated with any of the other variables.
Authors: Fernanda Dreux, Miranda Fernandes
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2579060331