Psychological and social characteristics of children with Autism .Ghail Bawazier. Hadhramout

Abstract

Background: Autism is the most complex developmental disability problem facing the world. Western
countries have a number of research, diagnosis and care
centers for children with autism while Arab countries
suffer from a lack of databases, research, services and
specialized centers for autistic children with complete
absence of awareness of the autistic children problem
and its consequences.
The interest in this disorder began recently in Yemen
and some centers have been established. However, there
are still many problems facing this new area, most important is the identification with this problem , its diagnostic process, treatment and rehabilitation.
Objectives: To identify the psychological and social
characteristics of children with autism according to
their parents estimating and to determine individual differences of in autistic children related to age and gender.
Methodology: Children with autism in Ghail Bawazeir district were evaluated by clinical methods using
Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) and interview
based questionnaire was the tool to collect the socio-demographic characteristics of the studied children from
their parents in Center of Autistic children in Ghail
Bawazeir city in Hadhramout in 2015.The data has been
coded and categorized and analyzed using the SPSS
Version 20.
Results: The main results of the study showed that
children were diagnosed with autism characterized with
linguistic, perception and social deficits, respectively,
where autistic children aged 4-6years suffered from
significant limitations in the characteristics of language
compared with children aged 7-12 years. While autistic
children aged 7-12 years suffered from significant limitation in characteristics of social interaction compared
with children aged (4-6) and (13-17 ) years.
Conclusion: Use of diagnostic measures for autism
helped us to identify and determine the degree of deficit
of autistic children characteristics and it is necessary
intervene as early as possible to develop the language
and verbal communication skills of children with autism
especially in early childhood years (4-6 years) through
develop of individual and collective programs to heal
their linguistic deficiencies, because the language is the
basis of knowledge and social interaction.