Evaluation of a Joint Attention Training Program with The Purpose of Improving Autistic Children's Emotional Literacy
Keywords:
Joint Attention, Training Program, Improving Autistic, Emotional, LiteracyAbstract
The present study sought to evaluate the efficacy of a joint attention training program in enhancing emotional comprehension among autistic children by comparing the pre-test emotional understanding between the experimental and control groups. As well as the difference in understanding emotions between the pre-test and the post-test for the control group in autistic children. The research also aims to identify the difference in understanding emotions between the experimental and control groups in the post-test in autistic children. To achieve the research objectives, the researcher randomly selected (32( children from an institute for the care of autistic children, where they were randomly distributed into two experimental and control groups. The researcher developed a training program based on theories of joint attention, including seven tactics, and presented it to arbitrators specialising in educational psychology and special education, together with the theoretical framework and used instruments. To assess the efficacy of the training program in enhancing emotional comprehension, the researcher devised a mock exam to evaluate the knowledge of emotions in autistic children, initially including 27 paragraphs with two possibilities each. The study concluded that there are no statistically significant differences between the control and experimental groups in understanding feelings at the pre-test. Likewise, there are no statistically significant differences between the pre-test and post-test of the control group in understanding feelings. The most important result is that there are statistically significant differences between the pre-test and post-test of the experimental group in favor of the post-test in understanding feelings, and there are also statistically significant differences between the control and experimental groups in understanding feelings at the post-test in favor of the experimental group.
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