Awareness and Behaviour Practices for Autistic Children’s Mothers and Their Relationship to Autism Disorder and Child’s Social Skills in Alexandria

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This study has been conducted to investigate the awareness and behaviour practices for autistic children’s mothers and their relationship to autism disorder and child’s social skills.
Samples of 100 mothers were chosen randomly to do this experiment. Interviewing these mothers has been used as a way to collect information related to this research.
Studies have revealed the following results:
As for directly the mothers according to their level of awareness of    autism it was seen that 68% of them have moderate awareness.32% have this specialized awareness. As for behaviour practices it was clear that 36 % of the mothers meant by the research follow scientific ways to modify the wrong behaviours of their children permanently. 33% of them fellow these ways
moderately 31 % rarely follow them. It was found that most of the mothers were highly satisfied with that disorder of their children.
As for measuring the level of autism it was clear that 48% of the children are highly autistics, 34% of them are moderately autistic and 18% of them have same mild features of autism.
As for the social skills we found that (24%) of the children have a high level, (51%) have a moderate level and (25%) of them have a low level of social skills
The results of this study showed that a significant correlation was observed between some of social economic factors and awareness, behaviour practices, autism disorder and child’s social skills.
 A significant correlation was found between social skills, autism disorder and behaviour practices of mothers at  0.01 level of significance.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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