Raise the Level of Care for Parents of Children with Autism

Abstract

The study aims to: Assess Parent's knowledge of care toward children with autism. Apply program regarding autistic children on the Parent's care intervention in autism center”. Find-out the relationship between the parent's care intervention about teaching program regarding autistic child and their demographic characteristics such as their age, gender, number of children education, marital status, occupation of parents, parent age when in the family, & number of autistic child in the family. A quasi experimental study was used for the present study was carried out from 27th June 2018 to the 24th March 2019 in order to determine rise and improve teaching program regarding autism Children in Parents intervention Knowledge in Autism Center in AL-Nasiriya City, on a purposive (non-probability) sample was used in this study that composed of (60) parents their autistic children. Data were collected by using the technique of self-administrative report was consisted of two parts: ‘ demographic characteristics of child, parents knowledge of care about their children. The validity of the questionnaire was obtained through a panel of experts and the internal consistency reliability was achieved through the application of Alpha Correlation Coefficient (r=0. 82) which was statistically acceptable.