Estudo longitudinal do perfil funcional da comunicação de adolescentes autistas / Longitudinal study of the functional communicative profile os institutionalized adolescents with autism

AUTOR(ES)

Danielle Azarias Defense

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

Autism is characterized by impairments in the three areas of development: social, cognitive and linguistic. It makes it essential to assess all these aspects and the relations between them. Other important issue is that several studies report changes in these aspects along the time, which implies the need to assess adolescents and adults with autism to better characterize their symptoms and the evolution observed throughout development. The aim of this research was to determine the communicative profile of a group of institutionalized adolescents with autism, considering its relation with socialcognitive, social communicative and behavioral aspects. Subjects were eight institutionalized adolescents with autism. They were assessed during a sixmonth period in what refer to the functional communicative profile, the socialcognitive performance, the social-communicative adaptation scale and the Autistic Behavior Checklist (ABC). The results were analyzed with nonparametric statistics. It was observed that there was improvement in the number of communicative acts per minute and in the proportion of interpersonal communicative acts from the first to the second moment of data gathering (three-month period). The social cognitive performance in spontaneous situation presented improvement from the first to the second moment of data gathering (six-month period). Higher or lower levels of social-communicative adaptation do not determine better performance and/or improvement in the results of the functional communicative profile. There was a correlation between higher scores in the ABC and lower scores in social-cognitive performance and the number of communicative acts per minute. The social-cognitive, linguistic and social adaptation aspects were also related to the severity of the manifestations

ASSUNTO(S)

autistic linguagem cognition language adolescência adolescence institutionalization institucionalização cognição autismo

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