Information on the thesis "Communication between Parents and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Hanoi" by graduate student Nguyen Thi Man, majoring in Psychology.1. Full name of student: Nguyen Thi Man 2. Gender: Female 3. Date of birth: September 25, 1984 4. Place of birth: Duy Minh - Duy Tien - Ha Nam 5. Decision number recognizing graduate student: 1355/2008/QD-XHNV-KH&SDH dated October 24, 2008, by the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. 6. Changes during training: None 7. Thesis title: Communication between parents and children with autism in Hanoi 8. Specialization: Psychology; Code: 60 31 80 9. Scientific supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Van Thi Kim Cuc – Director of Ngan Pho Counseling Center – Lecturer in Psychology Department, University of Social Sciences and Humanities. (Clearly state scientific title, academic degree, full name, and workplace) 10. Summary of thesis results: This thesis is the result of research between parents and children with autism in families in Hanoi. The research results have provided insightful perspectives in the field of research and therapy for children with autism and help parents of children with autism communicate appropriately with their children. 1. The purpose of parental communication with children: Parents of children with autism, when talking and communicating with their children, aim to focus on the child, hoping for a change in the child or helping the child understand what is happening in life. These are the higher purposes that motivate parents to talk and communicate with their children. However, the father's communication purpose differs from that of the mother. The mother focuses more on the child, helping them understand what is happening in life and hoping for some kind of change in the child. This is the main motivation that helps the mother overcome all obstacles to talk and communicate with her autistic child. But for the father, not only focusing on the child but also sharing feelings and releasing his own thoughts is very important. For the father, these two goals are parallel. 10.2. Frequency of Parental Communication with Children The frequency of parental communication with children is relatively low. The time parents spend with their children is mainly between 15 and 30 minutes, while activities such as feeding or playing with the child are more frequent, but only up to 30 minutes to 1 hour. No parent can communicate with their child for more than 4 hours in daily activities. 10.3. Circumstances of Parental Communication with Children Parents communicate with their children in various situations: playing with them, dropping them off at school, teaching them, bathing them, feeding them, and putting them to sleep. Parents mainly communicate with their children whenever they have free time. They have less opportunity to communicate with their children in the morning or afternoon. At lunchtime, almost no parents have the opportunity to communicate with their children. 4. Content of Parental Communication with Children The topics that parents frequently discuss with their children are limited in content. In daily life, parents can discuss many issues, and their words and actions are diverse and varied. However, in this case, we see that parents do not have much time to spend with their children, so when they talk to their children, the words and actions they use are quite limited. 5. Parental Communication with Children: Parents still use very limited forms of communication with their children. Communication is like a tool to help convey the content and issues that parents want to communicate to their children. However, parents of children with autism have not used this tool effectively. 6. The Influence of Communication on Children's Progress: Parents acknowledge that communicating with their children helps them become more proactive in interacting with others, and they make more progress than before, although this progress is not as rapid as that of typical children. Currently, scientists have not definitively confirmed the cause of autism or the methods of treating this syndrome, but if parents actively communicate with their children, it will help them gradually overcome their limitations in communication and language. 11. Practical Application: This document serves as a resource for research on children with autism. 12. Future research directions: None 13. Published works related to the thesis: None
INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS
1. Full name: Nguyen Thi Man 2. Sex: Female 3. Date of birth: September 25th 1984 4. Place of birth: Ha Nam 5. Admission decision number: 1355/2008/QD – XHNV – KH&SĐH Dated: October 24, 2008 6. Changes in academic process: No (List the forms of change and corresponding times) 7. Official thesis title: Communication between parents and children with autism in the family in Hanoi. 8. Major: Psycology 9. Code: 60 31 80. 10. Supervisors: Associate Professor – Ph.D Van Thi Kim Cuc – Director of Ngan Pho' counseling center and Trainers of University of Social Sciences and Humannities. (Full name, academic title and degree) 11. Summary of the findings of the thesis: Thesis is a study of Communication between parents and children with autism in the family in Hanoi. Research results in the thesis provide an overview, insight into the face of research and therapy for autistic children and proposes appropriate ways to communicate with parents who have children with autism. 11.1. Purpose of communication with parents of autistic children The parents of children with autism when communicating with children is aimed towards kids like to hope for a change of the child or to help children understand what is happening in life are still higher purpose to promote parents communicating with children. However, the purpose of communication is the father of the different purposes of communication of the mother. Mothers focus on children more, to help children understand what is happening in life and to hope for a change that child's own motivation to urge mothers to overcome all communication with their autistic children.But for the father, not only focusing on children whose emotions sharing, clearing the thoughts themselves are also important. For this purpose, the father of two in parallel. 11.2. Time iccidence of parents communicating with autistic children Time frequency of parental communication with children is a relatively low level. Time for young parents mainly at 15 to 30 minutes is the majority, while the number of activities such as feeding children, or children playing with their parents for children more time but only in levels from 30 minutes to 1 hour. Particularly in the range of 4 hours or more, without any parent can communicate with children in daily activities. 11.3. Circumstances for parents to communicate with autistic children Parents communicate with children in the circumstances: playing with kids, shuttling kids to school, teaching children, bathing children, feeding children and the children go to bed. Time to communicate with young parents mainly at leisure at any time. At the time of morning or afternoon parents are less able to communicate with children. Separate lunch time, most parents do not have to interact with children. 11.4. Communicate the content of parents for children with autism The problems that parents often mentioned for children are limited for the content of communication. In daily life, parents can refer to many problems, the words and actions will be varied and abundant, but here we see the parents do not have much time for kids So when communicating with the child in words and actions refer parents of children that are also very limited. 11.5. Form of communication for parents of autistic children The steps a parent is also used to restrict other forms of communication for children. Form of communication as a tool to support the transmission of content, a problem that parents want to convey to the child. But the parents of autistic children did not use these tools effectively. 11.6. Influence of the communication process for the evolution of autistic children Parents are admitted if communication with children will help them more actively in the process of interaction with people, children are more advanced than before, although progress is not progressing as fast as compared with normal children. Currently scientists do not confirm the cause of autism and how to treat this syndrome, but if parents actively communicate with children will help children gradually overcome the limitations on aspects of communication, the language of children. 12. Practical applicability, if any: data used as a reference in practical research on autism.
