Abstract:
Previous research indicates that there is a lack of visual processing skills in children with autism spectrum disorder, and the current research aims to verify the effectiveness of a programme based on some central cohesion tasks in developing visual processing skills in children with autism spectrum disorder. The sample consisted of 10 children at the Fort-T Rehabilitation Centre, in age from 8 to 10 years old, the level of autism disorder (55-70) on the Gilliam scale-3, divided into two equivalent groups of experimental and control. The tools of the study consisted of the Stanford Binet Scale-Image 5, the Gilliam-3 Scale, the Visual Processing Scale for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and a programme based on central cohesion tasks.The results indicated statistically significant differences at the level (0.05) Between the means rank of the experimental group in the pre and posttest for visual processing in favour posttest, and statistically significant differences at the level (0.01) between the means rank of two groups at posttest in favour of experimental group, its reflecting the effectiveness of the programme in improving visual treatment in children with autism spectrum disorder.