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.

项目摘要： 在几项研究中已经记录了它的过渡年龄青年对自闭症的失业率 频谱（TAY-AS）明显高于其他疾病的人，大约有两个 自闭症患者的三分之一失业。自闭症社区已将社会交流确定为 在维持就业方面的重大挑战，因为它们会对Tay-AS的相互作用产生负面影响 其他员工。礼貌是社会交流的关键方面之一，被视为 社会互动中适当性的演示。礼貌标记（PMS）是使用的话语 表达礼貌。尽管已在其他显示社会的人群中评估了PMS的使用 沟通缺陷，例如患有脑损伤和帕金森氏病的人，他们还没有 在加速的人群中进行评估。当前的研究将通过评估文献来解决这一差距 使用语音邮件启发任务（VET）使用PMS。兽医在角色中提供可变的工作场所环境 - 播放格式以刺激评估PM的语言样本。这个拟议项目的目的 a）评估兽医用作检测在tay-as中使用中定义的筛查工具并进行比较 通过神经型控制（NTC）性能，b）评估当前的兽医评分模式是否为 足够或是否需要更新并从原始形式进行扩展以检测自闭症 - 以特定或自闭症为中心的PM，c）对兽医的心理测量特性的初步评估（可靠性和 有效性）。该提议的项目将招募30个TAY-AS和30个NTC，年龄在16-24岁之间。 我们将比较PMS中两个组的性能，这将使我们能够定义特定 定义自闭症患者的PM使用，这将有助于设计针对这些的干预措施 缺陷。