چکیده:
Objective: The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of video modeling on
social skills of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Methods: The current experimental study with pre-test, post-test design and control group was
conducted on 24 male children with ASD aged 6-8 years from two special schools. The samples
were selected by random sampling method and randomly divided into experimental and control
groups, each group consisted of 12 children. In the experimental group video modeling was
used in 16 sessions, while the control group did not participate in this program. Gilliam Autism
Rating Scale 2 (GARS-2) was used to diagnose ASD and Autism Social Skills Profile (ASSP)
to assess social skills in children with ASD. The data were analyzed using multivariate analysis
of covariance with SPSS V. 24.
Results: The obtained results showed that video modeling training had a positive and significant
effect on social skills of children with ASD in the experimental group (F2.21=28.170, P<0/001).
Conclusion: These findings supported the effectiveness of video modeling on social skills
of children with ASD. Therefore, this program can be used to improve social skills of such
children and plan to provide video modeling training program for them, which has particular
importance.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Research Paper: The Effectiveness of Video Modeling on Social Skills of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Mohammad Ashori1*/, Seyyedeh Somayyeh Jalil-Abkenar2/ 1.
The Effectiveness of Video Modeling on Social Skills of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Results: The obtained results showed that video modeling training had a positive and significant effect on social skills of children with ASD in the experimental group (F2.
ir 159 July 2019, Volume 7, Number 3 Highlights • Video modeling training had a positive effect on the social skills of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
• There are significant differences between the control and experimental (children with ASD that participated in video modeling training program) groups concerning the scores of social skills.
Video modeling training program led to the improvement of social interaction, social participation, appropriate social behaviors and social skills of children with ASD.
Therefore, the current study aimed at examining the effect of video modeling on the social skills of children with ASD.
To answer the question wheth-er video modeling affected social skills and subscales (social interaction, social participation, and appropriate social behaviors) of children with ASD, a Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) was used.
The present study supported the effectiveness of video modeling on social interaction, social participation, ap-propriate social behaviors, and social skills of children with ASD.
Therefore, it is expected that video model-ing leads to improving social skills, social interaction, social participation and appropriate social behaviors of children with ASD.