The Development of Self - Care Dressing Skills of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder through Self - Care Dressing Skills - Activity Packages

Abstract

The purposes of this research are: 1) To study the results of the development of self-care skills on the dressing of the autistic children at the preparatory level by using the activity kit of dressing. 2) To compare the results of the development of self-care skills on the dressing of the autistic children at the preparatory level before and after using the activity kit of dressing. 3) To assess the satisfaction of parents on the results of the development of self-care skills on the dressing of the autistic children at the preparatory level after using the activity kit of dressing. The target group is six autistic students at the preparatory level who are aged between 4-8 years old of the Special Education Center, Educational Region 12, Chonburi Province, Semester 2 of Academic Year 2022. The research tools consist of 1) The 3 sets of activity kit of dressing, namely (1) the activity kit of putting on - taking off slipper shoes, (2) the activity kit of putting on - taking off elastic waist pants and (3) the activity kit of putting on - taking off round neck t-shirt, 2) The Individual Lesson Plan and 3) The Assessment of the self-care skills on the dressing before and after using the activity kit of dressing. The statistics used to analyze the data are Mean and Percentage.

The research results revealed that: 1) By using the activity kit of dressing, the target group has a better development. They can perform the three sets of activity kit of dressing some time by themselves and at the other time with verbal prompts by the teachers. 2) From the results of comparison of the development of self-care skills on the dressing of the autistic children at the preparatory level after using the activity kit of dressing, they have better development, representing 84.76 percent. 3) The parents were satisfied with the results of the development of self-care skills on the dressing of the autistic children at the preparatory level after using the activity kit of dressing, representing 87.61 percent.