Case Study Of Occupational Therapy For Children With Autism

Occupational therapy is an activity which has a purpose, a way to help individuals who have dysfunction in terms of physical and mental development so that loss of self-care and labor capacity to rehabilitation in their daily lives, body, perceptual and cognitive ability independent as possible. For a long time, occupational therapy focused on rehabilitation of individual motor function, less empirical research on autism and performance are concentrated on the qualitative description of verbal communication and participation of activities.On the basis of previous researches, take attention to individual functional capacity, three children with autism as cases, using a single test ABABA experimental design to implemented the activities. Combine the analysis of qualitative and quantitative, try to explore the effectiveness of occupational activities for children with autism on indicators of initiative, responsiveness and participation of activities.Research indicates:1. Implementation of occupational therapy program can improve cases’ability of initiative, responsiveness and participation of activities effectively.2. Implementation of occupational therapy program has differences between cases:have similar effect in speech communication; in terms of participation of activities Jia is better than Yi and Yi is better than Bing.3. Implementation of occupational therapy program has good social validity and has a positive impact to other behavioral changes, such as challenging behavior, awareness of the rules, waiting for its turn.In sum, the program of activities can improve cases’verbal communication and the ability to participate, but both to improve individuals relevance behavior.