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Games for children with autism spectrum disorder

Abstract:

The dysfunction of the autistic spectrum continues to be considered a world social and health problem, considering the magnitude that this reached in the last decades. Due to the implication that it has for the children, their relatives and the school environment, this topic has became in an investigative target of the international scientific community at the present time. Accordingly, we direct this proposal that aims to assess the efect of a group of games in this age group having dysfunction of the autistic spectrum. For this, we selected a simple random sampling containing 20 autistic children and we measured certain parameters characteristic of their condition, both before and after this playful treatment was applied. To determine the significance of the improvement, statistical methods were used as the test of t-Student. The effect size was also identified by means of the statistic g of Hedges. The results obtained evidence the effectiveness of the group of games, because the value p was smaller to the threshold and also the indicators of the pre-Test and the post-Test has a high effect size.