The impacts of school based occupational therapy intervention for children with autism:/ the mother's

Abstract

ABSTRACT Background: Autism spectrum disorders (ASD ) is increasing day by day in the World. Autism is adevelopmental disorder and autistic children are that they have difficulty in social interaction, play and education. They do not easily understand anythinglike normal children. They needspecial care. In special schools Occupational Therapists plays an important role. However, there was no study to find out the impact on school based Occupational Therapy service for children with autism. The study was focused on mother’s experience about impact on school based Occupational Therapy service for children with autism. Aim: The aim of the study is to explore the mothers experience about the impact of school-based Occupational Therapy service for children with autism. Methodology:This is a qualitative research andused Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA ) . In this study, 7 participants were selected.The investigator used convenient sampling and semi-structure questions. The investigator applied face to face interview for data collection. The participants of this study were selected from the Beautiful Mind School and Savar Proyash. Result and Discussion: This study showed that overall all participants’children had a good change in socialization and most of theparticipant’s children had a good change in play skills. Three (3 ) mothers told that they found good changes in academic skills for their child. Another three mothers found changesin education side but this child does not follow the school rules and pays poor attention in class and only one mother did not see any change in academic side. But they thought that they will see a good change after long time taking Occupational therapy service. Conclusion:Children with autism have faced many difficulties in school settings and school related task. It is very important for specialized children especially autistic child to get Occupational Therapy. Occupational Therapists easily understand the child’s ability and skills and help to this child to find out the problem and solve it.