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.

项目总结： 一些研究已经证明，过渡期的失业率对自闭症青年的影响 谱系(Tay-AS)显著高于其他残疾个体，约有两个 自闭症患者中有三分之一失业。自闭症社区认为社会沟通是一种 在维持就业方面面临重大挑战，因为它们对Tay-AS与 其他员工。礼貌，这是社会交际的关键方面之一，被视为 在社会交往中表现出适当性。礼貌标记(PM)是所使用的话语 表示礼貌。尽管PM的使用已经在其他表现出社交能力的人群中进行了评估 沟通障碍，如脑损伤和帕金森氏症患者，他们并没有 在自闭症人群中进行评估。目前的研究将通过评估 使用语音邮件启发任务(VET)使用PM。兽医在角色中提供了可变的工作场所环境- 播放格式，以刺激用于评估PM的语言样本。这个拟议项目的目标是 A)评估VET作为筛查工具的使用，以发现Tay-as中PM使用的缺陷，并进行比较 这与神经典型对照(NTCs)的性能有关，b)评估当前的VET评分方案是否 它们是否足够或是否需要从原始形式更新和扩展以检测自闭症- 具体的或以自闭症为中心的PM，c)初步评估VET的心理测量特性(可靠性和 这项拟议的项目将招收30名Tay-AS和30名NTC，年龄范围在16-24岁之间。 我们将比较两组在PM中的表现，这将使我们能够定义具体的 自闭症患者PM使用的缺陷将有助于设计针对这些患者的干预措施 赤字。