TITLE:
Functional Communication Profile-Revised: Application and Comparison with the Functional Communicative Profile-Checklist
AUTHORS:
Thaís Helena Ferreira Santos, Cibelle Albuquerque de la Higuera Amato, Fernanda Dreux Miranda Fernandes
KEYWORDS:
Autistic Disorder, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Child Language, Functional Communication Profile, Questionnaires
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.5 No.11,
August
25,
2014
ABSTRACT: Assessment
techniques regarding language and communication abilities of children with ASD
must focus on functional communication and are essential to the assessment of
the intervention proposals outcomes. The purpose of this study is to compare
the results of two different protocols that assess the functional communicative
profile. Participants were 50 children and adolescents with ages between 3
years 9 months and 14 years 8 months of both genders with diagnosis within the
ASD. They were assessed by FCP-Rr and FCP-C. The results showed that although
both instruments didn’t result in equivalent data, they provided important
information about the communication of children and adolescents with ASD
because they used the same paradigms of analysis. The comparison of FCP-C and
the FCP-Rr results in important information to the comprehensive understanding
of children and adolescents with ASD because they use the same paradigms of
variable analysis. Results also indicate that disorders in receptive language
interfere directly in the interpersonal communication of these subjects while
only severe disorders of expressive communication have significant effects on
interpersonal communication.