The research topic will be teaching students with Autism Spectrum Disorder coping mechanisms to help them recognize and manage their emotions, and enable them to express themselves.
Importance of Studying the Topic
The need to study the topic is to understand the various challenges that people with autistic disorders are faced with. A person exhibiting challenges in their speech patterns, nonverbal communications, social skills, and repetitive behaviors characterizes autism spectrum disorder. The need to study the need for coping mechanisms helps people with various manifestations of autistic disorders to be able to express themselves despite the challenges in speech and social skills. The study will help the researcher understand autism on the broader spectrum and the various forms of autism. The research will reveal information on how to develop strategies that are appropriate to help the researcher learn how to implement means of helping autistic children to improve their skills.
Purpose of the Study
This study is aimed at understanding the autism spectrum disorder and developing strategies to help those around those affected by the condition learn how to express themselves. Coping mechanisms are important tools to help people deal with various situations. People with autism due to the challenges that occur in their development might be unable to express their emotions. The challenges in development affect their social skills and ability to react to situations as expected by societal norms. The study is expected to collect and analyze data pertaining to the research to help find relevant and suitable solutions to the challenges identified. The methodology used to carry out the research also has a role to play in ensuring that the solutions found are suitable for implementation to achieve the desired outcomes. The study is expected to come up with a means to help people with challenges in cognitive and psychological development to help learn various coping mechanisms that they can use to deal with various situations. The activities would require that that the methods identified to help autistic persons are tested and their effectiveness has proven to ensure their effectiveness.
Research Question
The research question is what the coping mechanisms that children with autism spectrum disorder use to help them manage their emotions and express themselves are? Answering this question will help the researchers understand the challenges that autistic children are faced with and how to help them recover from their conditions and the most suitable means to achieve the intended goals. The research question also doubles up as a thesis statement for the topic of the project and will establish the issue that the paper seeks to address.
Stressors Experienced by parents to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
According to Padden and James (2017), parents of children with Autism spectrum disorder are often stressed and have been reported to have poorer physical health when compared to those whose children are developing normally. The stress has been proven to originate from the higher levels of distress that arise from the parents being unable to understand the needs of their children due to lack of a coping mechanism. The parents are also required to part with large sums of money in most cases to take their children to institutions where their needs will be addressed.
Variables Analysis
The independent variables in this research will be the various types of autism. The various causes and effects of the different conditions and the possible factors that can affect autistic children (Ingersoll " Hambrick, 2011) will group the variables.
References
Ingersoll, B., " Hambrick, D. Z. (2011). The relationship between the broader autism phenotype, child severity, and stress and depression in parents of children with autism spectrum disorders. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 5(1), 337-344.
Padden, C., " James, J. E. (2017). Stress among parents of children with and without autism spectrum disorder: a comparison involving physiological indicators and parent self-reports. Journal of developmental and physical disabilities, 29(4), 567-586.
