Assessment of Patterns of Exposure to Physical Punishment and its Effect on Autistic Child

Abstract

Physical punishment is associated with poorer academic achievement, lower IQ, poorer performance on standardized achievement tests, poorer adjustment to school, and poorer self-esteem. Several studies had linked exposure to physical punishment with poorer performance on intellectual tasks (Giarelli & Gardner, 2012). The presence of emotional support for parents, or parents providing extra intellectual stimulation to their autistic children, did not remove this effect (Berzenski & Yates, 2013). This study aimed to assess the patterns of exposure to physical punishment and its effect on autistic child. Research Question: 1. What are the parents' patterns of punishment (physical, non-physical) toward their autistic children? 2. What is the effect of punishment on autistic children? The subject and methods of the current study was illusterated under the following four designs: I. Technical Design II. Operational Design III. Administrative Design IV. Statistical Design