The Effectiveness of Social Stories on Some Morphological Features of Children with Autism

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Authors
S. besharati 1
M. Taheri Osgouei 2
H. dadgar 3
N. Amir Arjmandi 4
1 Linguistics. Islamic Azad University.Takestan. Iran.
2 Assistant Professor , Islamic Azad University, Takestan Branch,
3 Speech therapy.Department,School of Rehabilitation,Tehran University of Medical Sciences.Tehran.
4 Linguistics. Islamic Azad University. Takestan. Iran.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of telling social stories on the use of some morphological features of speech in children with autism such as adverb, adposition, possession, article, compound noun, adjective and plural form of noun. This is an Interventional, quasi-experimental single group study with a pretest-posttest design. The study subjects were selected by convenience sampling method which included 10 Persian-speaking aged 7 to15 years old with autism spectrum disorder, requiring support, from all autism population in Qazvin Autism Center in 2019. The framework was based on the model of Brown 1973 and Naigles 2014 (taken from the research of Tek et.al 2014). Social stories were designed and organized, based on the model of Gray 1993. The children of autism received the intervention program in 10 individual sessions 30 to 45 minutes. The pre-test and post-test comparison of morphological categories in visual test and spontaneous test showed that the average use of names and particles in the post test was more than the pre-test for all cases. The biggest difference is related to the adposition. The result of the Wilcoxon test analysis showed that the training had a significant effect only on the visual test and on the article (according to the average of the pre-test and post-test, the statistical value and significance level = p˂0.05).

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