The effect of using educational methods in improving social interaction for children of the autism spectrum in special education centers from the specialists' point of view

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the effect of using educational methods on the social interaction of children of the autism spectrum in special education centers from the point of view of specialists in Nablus governorate, in light of some independent variables (gender, academic qualification, years of experience), and the two researchers built a questionnaire for this purpose that was distributed on ( 61) Specialist and specialist, working in special education centers in Nablus. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the two researchers developed a questionnaire, and the study tool consisted of (30) paragraphs, distributed in two fields, to view the educational methods and social interaction, and the response to the paragraphs of the tool was according to Likert's five-point gradient, and the tool contained paragraphs that were all positive, and the researcher confirmed Whoever validated the tool and obtained a statistically significant correlation coefficient for all paragraphs, and extracted the stability of the tool using the half-segmentation method and obtained reliability (0.918), and also with the Cronbach's alpha equation and obtained a reliability coefficient (0.856) The study found the following results The degree of impact of the use of educational aids in special education centers and its relationship to the social interaction of children on the autism spectrum from the specialists' point of view was moderate at a relative weight (64.2%) and There are no statistically significant differences at the level of significance ( ) of the effect of using educational aids on the social interaction of children of the autism spectrum in special education centers from the point of view of specialists in Nablus governorate due to variables of gender, academic qualification, years of experience,The researchers recommend Work on positive trends towards the use of educational aids by specialists by holding courses to introduce their importance, and how to use them with children on the autism spectrum.