فعالية برنامج تدريبي باستخدام القصص الإجتماعية في تنمية التواصل البصري، وإدراك تعبيرات الوجه وأثرهما على تنمية بعض المهارات الاجتماعية لدى أطفال اضطراب طيف التوحد
The research aimed to develop visual communication and awareness of facial expressions and their impact on developing some social skills through a program based on social stories. The sample of the experimental group with one experimental group consisted of (6) children with autism spectrum disorder, whose IQ ranged on the Stanford scale- Interstitial (67- 78) degrees with an average ability (72.95) degrees and standard deviation ability (3.799) degrees, and their temporal ages ranged between (9 12) years with an average age of ability (10.58) years, and a standard deviation of (1.163) years, as ranged their score on the autistic child scale is between (30-34) degrees for an average ability (32.01) degrees standard deviation of (2.189) degrees, and the research used the following tools: a scale for visual assessment in children with autism spectrum disorder (prepared by: the researcher), a measure to estimate the perception of facial expressions in children with autism spectrum disorder (prepared by: the researcher), a measure of appreciation of some social skills in children with autism spectrum disorder (prepared by: researcher), a program based on social stories (prepared by: the researcher). The program consists of (25) a session with the application of (3) sessions per week, and the implementation of the program took a time period (10) weeks and the time period in the application of one session ranges from (20-25) minutes, the child autism scale (Muhammad, 2003), the Arab Stanford Binet Scale of Intelligence (fourth edition), prepared by Hanna (2001). And the results of the study reached the effectiveness of the training program using social stories in developing visual communication and awareness facial expressions and their effect on the development of some social skills in children with autism spectrum disorder. (Published abstract)