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Ghorban, Hemati; Sedigheh, Rezaei Dehnavi; Marzieh, Gholami; Yaghoob, Gharghani – Journal of Education and Learning, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of therapeutic horseback riding on social skills of children with autism spectrum disorder. Participants were 6 children with autism spectrum disorder in a special education center for autistic children in Shiraz, Iran. The hypothesis of the study was that participants would demonstrate…
Descriptors: Horses, Therapy, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Ghanizadeh, Ahmad – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2008
To study prevalence rates of pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) symptoms and differences between subtypes in school age Iranian children. A random sample of 2,000 school age children from both genders was selected. A parent-completed, DSM-IV-referenced rating scale of PDD symptoms was used. About 1.9% of the sample obtained screening cutoff…
Descriptors: Incidence, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Rating Scales, Foreign Countries