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MEASUREMENT OF BEHAVIOURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS USING INDIAN SCALE FOR ASSESSMENT OF AUTISM (ISAA)
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- 1. Specialist, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
- 2. Senior Consultant, Institute of Neuro Sciences, Medanta Super Specialty Hospital, Indore, India
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Back Ground: Autism is a complicated developmental disability and considered as a spectrum of psychological conditions illustrated with extensive abnormalities of social relations and communications, as well as relentlessly limited interests and exceedingly monotonous behavior. Problem behavior is one of the major symptoms associated with autism spectrum disorders.
Objective: Defining the characteristics of children with ASD on Indian Scale for Assessment of Autism (ISAA) and to find the relationship between factors related with diagnosis and problem behaviours.
Methodology: 54 children with ASD diagnosed as per DSM IV were recruited for this observational analysis. Researcher graded the behavior using the standard method as mentioned for ISAA.
Results: Behavioural characteristics of the participants show that no significant difference was observed based on their age and gender however, significant differences in the behaviour problem was observed on participants with different level of ASD diagnosis. A significant relationship was found between medication intake and level of problem behaviours among the participants. Further analysis shows that no significant relationship exists between the age during diagnosis, duration since the diagnosis, number of alternative therapy undertaken and time spent of therapy program.
Conclusion: Different severity of ASD children do have different problems in various aspects of behavioural problems. Reference values for all the domains of ISAA based on age, gender and severity was also established.
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