The Impact of LCSMA Based Therapy on the Overall Development Profile of Autistic Children

The present study, carried out over a period of 4 years, investigated the effect of using LCSMA on the mental development of 3 children with autism, aged between 3 years and 3 years and 10 months old at the beginning of the study and an average of 3 years and 5 months. The main areas assessed were the social skills, expressive language, cognitive development, personal autonomy and motor skills.During the 4 years of experimental study, the children benefited from the intervention based on the language and communication stimulation method for children with autistic spectrum disorder (LCSMA - Language and Communication Stimulation Method in Autism; Dascăl Crişan, 2012), undergoing a periodic assessment every 6 months. According to the obtained results, an improvement was recorded over all the areas investigated, although the overall development profile of the children remained disharmonically developed, subjected to both a sudden increase as well as a ceiling effect throughout their evolution.