The present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of a training program for
the development of non-verbal behavioral in a sample of (8) autistic children
aged (4-8 years). The hypotheses of the study, the researcher built a checklist to
rate
the behaviors verify composed of (27) items divided into four dimensions:
(focus and attention, emotional expressions, communication and indicative
tradition, gestures and physical conditions), after being extracted with
connotations of validity and reliability the appropriate. The researcher used the
standard childhood autism rating scale (CARS) and the autistic behavior
checklist (ABC) to homogeneity of the sample.
The results of the study indicated the effectiveness of the training program in the
development of non-verbal target behaviors in children with autism sample and
to varying degrees, though most in the focus and attention and dimension at least
in the gestures and physical conditions.