A Novel Employment Specific Social Communication Assessment Tool for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

针对自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 患者的新型就业特定社交沟通评估工具

• 批准号: 10742468
• 负责人: Heba Elsayed
• 金额: $ 15.04万
• 依托单位: KESSLER FOUNDATION, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10742468
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Age; Assessment tool; Awareness; Brain Injuries; Categories; Code; Communication; Communities; Data; Development; Emotional; Employee; Employment; Employment Status; Enrollment; Evaluation; Face; Future; Goals; Hour; Impairment; Individual; Intervention; Language; Life; Link; Literature; Measures; Occupational; Occupations; Outcome; Outcome Measure; Parkinson Disease; Patient Self-Report; Performance; Persons; Play; Population; Procedures; Property; Protocols documentation; Psychometrics; Randomized, Controlled Trials; Reporting; Risk; Role; Sampling; Screening procedure; Social Interaction; Standardization; Traumatic Brain Injury; Unemployment; Update; Validity and Reliability; Vocational rehabilitation; Work; Workplace; Youth; adolescent with autism spectrum disorder; autism community; autism spectrum disorder; autistic; computerized; design; disability; graduate school; high school; improved; individuals with autism spectrum disorder; innovation; novel; satisfaction; skills; social; social communication; social relationships; therapy design; tool; verbal; willingness

Project summary: It has been documented in several studies that unemployment rates in Transition Age Youth on the Autism Spectrum (TAY-AS) are significantly higher than individuals with other disabilities, with approximately two thirds of autistic individuals unemployed. The autism community has identified social communication as a significant challenge in maintaining employment, as they negatively impact the interactions of TAY-AS with other employees. Politeness, which is one of the key aspects of social communication, is viewed as the demonstration of appropriateness in social interactions. Politeness markers (PMs) are the utterances used to express politeness. Although PMs use has been evaluated in other populations that display social communication deficits, such as persons with brain injury and Parkinson’s disease, they have not been evaluated in the autistic population. The current study will address this gap in literature by evaluating the use of PMs using the Voicemail Elicitation task (VET). VET provides variable workplace contexts in a role- play format to stimulate language samples in which PMs are assessed. The aims of this proposed project are a) Evaluate the use of VET as a screening tool to detect deficits in PMs use in TAY-AS and compare this with neurotypical controls (NTCs) performance, b) Evaluate whether current VET scoring schemas are adequate or whether they need to be updated and expanded from their original form to detect autism- specific or autism-centric PMs, c) Initial evaluation of the psychometric properties of VET (reliability and validity).This proposed project will enroll 30 TAY-AS and 30 NTCs with age range between 16-24 years. We will compare the performance of the two groups in PMs and this will enable us to define the specific deficits in PMs use in individuals with autism which will aid in designing interventions that target these deficits.

项目概要： 几项研究表明，自闭症过渡期青年的失业率 频谱（TAY-AS）明显高于其他残疾的人，大约有两个 三分之一的自闭症患者失业。自闭症社区已经确定社会沟通是一种 维持就业的重大挑战，因为它们对TAY-AS与 其他雇员。礼貌是社会交际的重要方面之一， 在社会交往中表现出适当性。礼貌标记语是指在言语交际中使用的 来表达礼貌。虽然PM的使用已经在其他人群中进行了评估， 沟通缺陷，如脑损伤和帕金森病的人，他们没有被 在自闭症人群中进行评估。目前的研究将通过评估 使用语音邮件诱导任务（VET）的PM。VET提供了不同的工作场所环境- 播放格式，以刺激语言样本，其中PM进行评估。该拟议项目的目标 a）评价VET作为筛查工具的使用，以检测TAY-AS中PM使用的缺陷，并比较 这与神经型对照（NTC）表现有关，B）评估当前VET评分方案是否 是否足够，或者是否需要从原来的形式进行更新和扩展，以检测自闭症- c）VET的心理测量学特性的初步评估（可靠性和 本项目将招募30名TAY-AS和30名NTCs，年龄范围在16-24岁之间。 我们将比较两组在项目管理方面的表现，这将使我们能够确定具体的 自闭症患者使用PM的缺陷，这将有助于设计针对这些问题的干预措施。 赤字