Validity and reliability of the Turkish Version of the Clinician Rated Severity of Autism Spectrum and Social Communication Disorders Scale

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Orkun Aydın ◽  
Fikret Çökmüş ◽  
Ömer Aydemir ◽  
DSM Grubu
Keyword(s):  
Social Communication ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Turkish Version ◽  
Social Communication Disorders

Assessing Social Communication Abilities of School-Aged Children

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatyana Elleseff
Keyword(s):  
Social Communication ◽  
Communication Skill ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
Academic Abilities ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Social Communication Disorders ◽  
The Brain

This article explains the importance of assessing social communication abilities of school-age children. It summarizes the effect of social communication on academic abilities, reviews terminology and definitions relevant to social communication disorders, lists areas of the brain involved in social communication, provides examples of social communication skill development, offers relevant pre-assessment considerations, as well as describes standardized instruments and informal procedures used to determine the presence of social communication deficits in school-age children.

scholarly journals An innovative training study on music therapy teaching methods for autism disorder (ASD)

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Heping QIN ◽  
Bei TU
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Communication Disorders ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

Practice has found that music and therapeutics have become more and more closely related in recent years. Music can assist in the treatment of certain diseases and relieve stress. For example, people with autism have common symptoms such as social communication disorders, communication disorders, and interest disorders. Although patients live in their own worlds, they also have common ground where they like music is interested in music, and have a strong talent for music. Through innovative training through music therapy, they use Orff's teaching and Kodaly. The expression of music language in teaching method, combining music with treatment, can effectively improve symptoms, relieve mood, relax mood, and slowly return to healthy social life. Under the influence of the novel coronavirus epidemic, music therapy is more suitable for home treatment, establishing a social communication relationship between autism patients and families. Through consulting literature, practical activities, visits, surveys and other practical modes, this paper innovates and trains and studies the benefits of music therapy for people with autism, and puts forward reference suggestions for music therapy.

Validity and reliability of a scale to measure knowledge and attitudes toward child atisum spectrum disorder among child caregivers: a study in northern Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 04 (04) ◽  
pp. 120-129
Author(s):  
Thu Ha Dinh ◽  
◽  
Thanh Thuy Hua ◽  
Thi Hai Ha Le ◽  
Thai Quynh Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
Behavioral Challenges ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Child Caregivers

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a range of developmental disabilities, that can cause significant social, communication and behavioral challenges. This study was conducted in 2017 in order to develop and validate a scale to measure knowledge and attitudes toward child autism spectrum disorder among child caregivers. We interviewed 193 child caregivers in 2 northern provinces of Vietnam, namely Hoa Binh and Thai Binh. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient were used to determine validity and reliability of our scale. Findings indicated that our scale on knowledge, including 13 items distributed into 3 factors with relatively good correlation (0.58-0.79), could explain 82.5% of variability of knowledge. The scale on attitudes consisted of 6 questions, explained 52.8% of variability in attitudes and had a good Cronbach’s alpha of 0.76. The results demonstrated that our scale has satisfactory validity and reliability, thus, could be used to measure knowledge and attitudes towards child ASD among child caregivers. Key words: scale, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), validity, reliability, child caregivers, Vietnam

Interactive Behaviors in Adolescent Conversation Dyads

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyn Turkstra ◽  
Angela Ciccia ◽  
Christine Seaton
Keyword(s):  
Social Communication ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
High Frequencies ◽  
Midwest United States ◽  
Social Communication Disorders ◽  
Conversational Behaviors ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Comparison Data

Purpose: Verbal and nonverbal conversational behaviors often are the target of intervention for adolescents with social communication disorders. There are, however, few sources of data on the interactive conversational behaviors of typically developing adolescents that can be used as guidelines when working with clinical populations. The purpose of this study was to collect behavioral data from conversations of adolescents so as to provide comparison data for adolescents with communication disorders. Method: Conversational behaviors were measured in 50 typically developing African American and Caucasian adolescents (24 females, 26 males) from the Midwest United States who engaged in extemporaneous, 3-minute conversations in dyads with peers. The effects of age, race, and sex of the participant were assessed. Results: Behaviors occurring at relatively high frequencies included directing gaze at the partner, particularly during listening; nodding and showing neutral and positive facial expressions; using back-channel responses; and giving contingent responses. Participants rarely showed negative emotions, turned away from each other, asked for clarification, or failed to answer questions. Overall, there were few effects of race and sex of the speaker and greater variability within than between groups. Clinical Implications: The data may serve as a source of information for clinicians serving individuals with communication disorders, with the caveat that the conversations included here represent a subset of typical adolescent interactive conversational behaviors.

Improving Social Communication Disorders Through Human-Avatar Interaction

2015 ◽  
pp. 237-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esperanza Johnson ◽  
Ramón Hervás ◽  
Tania Mondéjar ◽  
José Bravo ◽  
Sergio F. Ochoa
Keyword(s):  
Social Communication ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Social Communication Disorders

scholarly journals The DSM-5 introduction of the Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder as a new mental disorder: a philosophical review

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Cristina Amoretti ◽  
Elisabetta Lalumera ◽  
Davide Serpico
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Response To Treatment ◽  
Communication Disorder ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pragmatic Communication ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractThe latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) included the Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder (SPCD) as a new mental disorder characterized by deficits in pragmatic abilities. Although the introduction of SPCD in the psychiatry nosography depended on a variety of reasons—including bridging a nosological gap in the macro-category of Communication Disorders—in the last few years researchers have identified major issues in such revision. For instance, the symptomatology of SPCD is notably close to that of (some forms of) Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This opens up the possibility that individuals with very similar symptoms can be diagnosed differently (with either ASD or SPCD) and receive different clinical treatments and social support. The aim of this paper is to review recent debates on SPCD, particularly as regards its independence from ASD. In the first part, we outline the major aspects of the DSM-5 nosological revision involving ASD and SPCD. In the second part, we focus on the validity and reliability of SPCD. First, we analyze literature on three potential validators of SPCD, i.e., etiology, response to treatment, and measurability. Then, we turn to reliability issues connected with the introduction of the grandfather clause and the use of the concepts of spectrum and threshold in the definition of ASD. In the conclusion, we evaluate whether SPCD could play any role in contemporary psychiatry other than that of an independent mental disorder and discuss the role that non-epistemic factors could play in the delineation of the future psychiatry nosography.

An initial examination of the psychometric properties of the Diagnostic Instrument for Social and Communication Disorders (DISCO-11) in a clinical sample of children with a diagnosis of Autism spectrum disorder

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Margo Anglim ◽  
Emma Victoria Conway ◽  
Myra Barry ◽  
Muhammad Kashif ◽  
Pauline Ackermann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Over Time

Introduction: The diagnostic interview for social and communication disorders (DISCO – 11; Wing 2006), is a semi-structured, interview-based instrument used in the diagnosis of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This paper explores the psychometric properties of the DISCO-11 used in a specialist Paediatric clinical setting. Two key research questions were examined; (1) Does the factor structure of the DISCO-11 reflect the diagnostic and statistical manual 5th edition (DSM-5, American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013) dyad of impairment in ASD? (2) Is there evidence of diagnostic stability over time using the DISCO? Methods: Review assessments of 65 children with ASD were carried out using standardised measures including the DISCO-11 and the autism diagnostic observation schedule. Results: The results revealed two factors resembling the DSM-5 algorithms, as used in DISCO-11, which were named as social-communication, and restricted and repetitive behaviours. The reliability, for the overall DISCO score was good (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.78). The social communication and social interaction subscale showed good reliability (Cronbach’s Alpha = 0.77) as did the restricted and repetitive patterns of behaviour, interests or activities subscale (Cronbach’s Alpha = 0.74). Acceptable internal reliability was found for the overall DISCO score and the subscales of social communication and social interaction and the restricted and repetitive patterns of behaviour, interests or activities. Test–retest showed good stability of diagnosis over time. Discussion: This study supports that the DISCO-11 shows potential as a valid and reliable instrument that can be used both for clinical and research purposes.

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