Currently one of the thorniest question of Russian education and psychology is the problem of diagnostics and functional assessment of skills in children with autism spectrum disorders since existing methods usually access one specific area of development or small set of skills. Urgency of this issue is explained by necessity of development for each of these children individual educational and treatment plan aimed at their socialization, raising their social adaptation, development and efficient education. Development of such plans is complicated due to lack of the unified approach to the issues of education and treatment of children with autism and may be based only on accurate data about developmental level of each child, that can be determined only through the use of special assessment tools. In the results of the research the diagnostics procedures that are used in the educational facilities of Moscow in order to develop individual educational plan for children with autistic spectrum disorders were determined and described, the comparative analysis of these diagnostics tools was accomplished, the areas of used of each method was determined. Methodical recommendations were completed within the framework of the research work of the professionals of the Center for Psychological, Medical and Social Support to Children and Adolescents of the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education.
The experts of the Center for Psychological, Medical and Social Support to Children and Adolescents of the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education conducted the pilot approbation of The Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills — Revised (ABLLS_R). The method is used for diagnostics and assessment of the functional skills and speech development level of children and adults with developmental delays or autism spectrum disorders in order to develop individual education plan and to assess teaching efficiency. The first part of the published description contains the history of the test development, goals and conditions of the assessment, its advantages and disadvantages, as well as the list of areas of skills for assessment and ways of collecting data. The pilot approbation of the Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills — Revised (ABLLS_R) was conducted by the experts of the Center for Psychological, Medical and Social Support to Children and Adolescents of the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education in 2014.
Diagnostics and assessment of the functional skills of children with disabilities and autism spectrum disorders are to be conducted to develop comprehensive remedial educational programmes. The described Methodology of the Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills — Revisited (ABLLS-R) allows to simplify and make the diagnostics more efficient, to conduct a comprehensive examination of the child in different areas of development, detect the formed and deficit skills. The second and final part of the description of the methodology offers recommendations on the filling of the Table of the Results of Initial and Repeated Testing and on the choice of goals of correctional work with a child on the basis of performance of individual test scales. The pattern of the table filled after the initial and repeated testing is given. In drawing up of the programme of individual development the willingness of the child to the development of that skill should be considered. Regular practice of selected skills in various situations and the preventive measures against the regression of skills are also important. Conclusive part. Beginning in № 3 (48), 2015
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