Abstract
Objectives: Early detection of autism might largely depend on pre-school teachers’ awareness and their prompt referral of thesechildren to health authorities for accurate diagnosis. The purpose of our study was to assess the awareness about childhood autismamong students attending the Department of Pre-school Teacher Education of a public university.Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was carried out on 181 out of 218 students.Results: The best known characteristic of a child having autism was ‘‘having a hard time in social relations’’ (90.1%). The majority(85.6%) of the study group believed that autism was curable and thought that a child having autism could pursue a family life in thefuture with his/her spouse (51.3%). Around 60.7% of all participants were of the opinion that a child with autism cannot participatein conversations.Conclusion: The idea of a child with autism disturbing the teaching environment (50.8%) exists which might be a very importantobstacle for his/her education; thus interfering with his/her treatment. Autism awareness of respondents could be considered to berelatively good among the senior students.
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