Language disorders in students with ASD

Abstract

The objective of this research is to identify the different language problems that derive from autism spectrum disorder, as well as the most characteristic identifying traits of each of them, paying special attention to the age at which they occur, as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of the different intervention strategies used in each case.

This research work has been developed using the quantitative statistical method, contrasting the information received from real cases intervened by teachers and specialists in the area of ??the Navarra community within the public education system. In this way, it has been possible to determine the effectiveness of the different interventions carried out in these cases, which were detected at different ages, especially the effectiveness of early interventions, which have obtained much higher results in the subsequent development of the language skills of the children operated on.

The results are conclusive, the data obtained after a technical analysis carried out in the mathematical analysis software "numbers" have made it possible to determine the effectiveness of early intervention, highlighting the relevance of the immediacy of detection and intervention. The level of effectiveness of various methods proposed in numerous reference studies has also been determined, thus fulfilling the second of our objectives. As an additional result, the need for greater training of the group of teachers who intervened in the cases studied has been detected, since except for the cases attended by specialists, the rest of the teachers hardly had relevant information on how to detect and intervene in the cases studied.