Influencia de la terapia del lenguaje en el desarrollo verbal de un niño con trastorno del espectro autista

Abstract

Verbal development is one of the linguistic skills that allows individuals to cquire and develop spoken language to communicate and interact with their surroundings in any social, family, and school context. This case study focuses on a child diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder ASD who attends language therapy due to a deficit in verbal development. From this arises the research question. What is the influence of language therapy on the verbal development of a child with grade 3 Autism Spectrum Disorder The general objective is to analyze the influence of language therapy on the verbal development of a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In accordance with the aforementioned, this study adopts an interpretative or qualitative paradigm of a descriptive type, using techniques and instruments selected and designed from the operationalization of variables, such as the Merlin Mechan Verbal Development Scale, interviews with parents and the specialist, through which the necessary information was collected to analyze the influence of one variable on the other. Following the final analysis of the results obtained, it was found that the child currently has a language age of 1 year and 1 month, which is considered significant progress, demonstrating the effectiveness of language therapy in verbal development.