Abstract
The purpose of the study was the use of an adapted valid Childhood Autistic Rating Scale (CARS) to identify Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in school children for the purpose of placement and intervention in a special school that comprised categories of children with intellectual disabilities. Samples of 52 subjects randomly selected from the population of 138 were used to rate their behaviours using the CARS. Using nonexperimental research design of cross-categorical survey (descriptive research) was considered most suitable for the study. This is a survey that studies a group of sample in order to identify traits of such group. With the use of statistical data of chi-square, scores collected from the participants revealed that there was no significant difference in the scores or ratings. Also, the result obtained from the use of t-test indicated that the instrument significantly differentiate ASDs traits from Non-ASDs. The findings in this study prompted a suggestion that special schools, centres, homes etc should get this valid instrument handy for the purpose of identifying autistic traits in school children for correct placement and intervention.
Highlights
One of the main problem in autism study has been the lack or ineffective valid measurement of screening and identifying children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) from other children with intellectual disabilities (Charman & Gotham, 2013; Must, Phillips, Curtin, & Bandini, 2015)
The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) using Childhood Autistic Rating Scale (CARS)
The degree of 208.42, representing 58% of the circumference for male was higher than degree of 151.58, representing 42% of the circumference for female showed the high incidence of males with ASDs than that of females
Summary
One of the main problem in autism study has been the lack or ineffective valid measurement of screening and identifying children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) from other children with intellectual disabilities (Charman & Gotham, 2013; Must, Phillips, Curtin, & Bandini, 2015). Developing nations have inherited this gap of developing, adopting or adapting screening instruments to be utilized inidentifying children with ASDs from age-appropriate nonautism peers for the needs of treatments and placements.Specialists and parents of children with ASD have shown concerns concerning the children’s behaviour and development on early identification and screening for correct placement and treatment instead of placement with age-appropriate peers (Becerra et al, 2017; Brugha, Doos, Tempier, Einfeld, & Howlin, 2015; Chan & Lam, 2018).
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