Perceptive- Cognitive Functional Learning Model Based on The Self-Management of Students with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: A Comparative Analysis

Ellis et al. [1] perform a study based on influence analysis of hypotheses theories of Cognitive Central Coherence (CCI), which specifies that information processing of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is of local type and conclude they do not find evidence of these postulates in processing of people with ASD. In this study, they establish a differentiation between local processing, as it ́s typical of cognitive weakness, contrary to semantic or global processing, but this difference is wrong, since global semantic processing can also be local, observing itself a tendency in processing of children with ASD to local semantic perception, they subdivide into units with meaning, with disabilities to establish a correspondence between conceptual unit with conceptual category and, sometimes, may not be done on the priority or main content, but about irrelevant contents Ojea [2], that corroborate the deficits of global semantic type in people with ASD, which are distinguished by a dominant perception of local semantic way of CCI theory Coderre et al. [3]. Thus, it becomes a basic aim of psychoeducational work for people with ASD ease the global cognitive-perceptual development to achieve semantic processes of growing hierarchy, as well as, the development of categories and their relationships, both between concepts, such as between concepts and categories, therefore principal question is with what methodology we should these cognitive developments and, in this sense, if stronger potential is local semantic processing, it ́s advisable start from the potential skilss to reach higher possible global development. Research studies related to interventions about behavior improvement ambit are noteworthy. Luxford, Hadwin & Kovshoff [4] and Mussey & Dawkins [5] show, i.e., the effectiveness of cognitive treatments to improve behavioral skills of people with ASD, based on a successive intervention progress from previous abilities, using interactive systemic contexts, with participation of all professionals and families as fundamental resources to achieve this proposed aims.

encouraging, likewise, as they also affirm Clarke, Hill & Charman [7], the participation of all social factors involved in educational process of children with ASD. These studies move over field of intervention, concluding that exclusively clinical environments must to be replaced for cultural contexts adapted to individual needs, becoming applied programs based on the school and in right context, which allow seeming improvements to happen where exclusively clinical environments don´t find them Drmic, Aljunied & Reaven [8].
Programs development advance, then, towards systemicity of psychological processes as a totality of human behavior, through which, some areas of development become, successively, means to support other areas, but always from child's potential areas. Pan et al. [9] and Ketcheson, Hauck & Ulrich [10] exhibit the existing relationship, i.e., between motor development within the area of physical education, in relation to executive function, the cognitive processes development properly and socialization processes, respectively, in children with ASD. Also, Tal-Atzili & Salls [11] investigate and conclude with effectiveness of successive sensory learning, through the development of tactile system in children with ASD, over family support, regarding to improve levels of perceptualcognitive processing of information. Nelson, Paul, Johnston & Kidder [12] research the area of creative dance to progressively increase social development. In this study, they use main play materials, creative dance activities and complex play sessions with known materials in inclusive contexts to promote global development of people with ASD.
The integrated intervention program, both touch on to the perceptive-cognitive areas, and in context of the intervention itself, characterized by interactivity of all participants, to wit, teachers, families, social and health services and peers, conform to current models, characterized by processes based on natural context Lyons [13]. This model, noted as Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT), it shapes "a naturalistic developmental behavior intervention, is described as a child and family centered model aimed at improving core social-communicative and behavioral siytoms of autism" [13].
PRT is based, above all, in specific interests of children themselves and their previous potential, in order to improve the development of communication, language, play and social relations, through a naturalistic learning-teaching, focused on the different perceptualcognitive areas and family affection, with participation of all factors of natural change, through education, training and empowerment Koegel & Koegel [14,15]. Precisely, basis of this methodology is supported, among others, on principle that people with ASD often tend to focus stimuli from the environment that, sometimes, mayn't be relevant because these people lay to a weak cognitive focus, so that, it´s necessary to clearly specify teaching system, applied in environment that´s right to it. Therefore, it´s essential a process of learning self-initiation, using strategies indicated by children with ASD themselves, because there can't always be a specific teaching program they meets these needs, since, learning to children to selfmanage progressively from the evaluated needs, make up basis of development of the joint attention capacity and attentional selectivity, which improves of skills generalization, self-regulation and independence of children along teaching-learning process. This psychoeducational aim is priority, learning semantic conceptual integration is significantly improved, but, above all, what´s more important, development of relationships between this learning and the semantic contents in being in memory is facilitated, to continue in the hierarchy of complexity of the cognitive development.
Didactic methodology must respond to following general characteristics, based to this hypothesis:

Research Aims
This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of the perceptualcognitive processes integration over curriculum, in relation to curricula that don´t integrate these sensory concepts. Within this general aim, research presents following specific aims: 1) Analyze interactive effects between integrated perceptualcognitive hypothesis and conceptual coding.
2) Observe the differences of the effects on experimental group regarding to control group.
3) Study possible differences in relation to participants age interval.

Design
Study design is an experimental investigation of two groups, an experimental group (EG) to which an integrated cognitiveperceptual-cognitive program and a control group (CG) was applied standard curriculum. Evaluation was carried out during 8 months along 3 successive measures.

Participants
A total of 20 students with ASD, of age ranges between 6 and 14 years, distributed in both groups, have participated in this study.
For the EG 10 students have been selected, of which, 4 students are between 6-8 years old, 3 between 9-11 years old and 3 between 12

Data analysis
Analysis aims to perform a comparative study of related effects between the "sensory" variable and "concept" variable, in relation to "group" variable, as well as to determine if there´re differences in this comparative study in relation to range old. Data analysis, the ANOVA test of a 1-factor repeated measures was carried out, 1-factor being the arithmetic μ of data found in "sensory" and "concept" variables. Also, we proceeded to observe optional posthoc test of the repeated measures analysis of 1-factor ANOVA.

Instruments
Instruments used have been following: A.
Reading analysis of a curricular text adapted to different competencies of students. If they don´t have acquired reading´ ability, it´s been valued according the given answers to an adapted story to individual needs; and B. Two scales use of evaluation measures, make ad hoc, according to standardized criterion indices for "sensory" and "concept" variables indicated in tables 1 (sensory variable) and 2 (concept variable) (  Relationships are frequently made between the information, both proviniente from data and cognitive system.

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Relationships between conceptual contents are developed. 0  k. Learning assessment.
For example, following development of one programmatic session with Bruno (name is fictitious), of 12 old years, who is studying 1st of Compulsory Secondary Education, can be observed:

i. Start
Review of school intercommunication Agenda.
Indications: concept of multiple numbers is deficit, although he knows how to carry out related mathematical operations.
-Hi Alex! Teacher says, touching Bruno lightly on shoulder.
-How about today in math class? -Well.
-Did teacher ask you? -Yes.
-Have you been able reply? -Good.
-What did he ask you? -Resolve the following problem: calculate the multiples of 17 between 800 and 900.
-Did he asked you something else? -Yes.
-What else did he ask? -Then he asked me to define the multiple numbers.
-What did you answer? -I didn´t know how to say it (conceptual need detected).
-What did the teacher say? -Regular, that I should study more.
-Did not you like it? -No (emotional need detected). -What have you make first? -I divided 800 by number 17.

ii. Situation reconstruction
-Why did you do that? -To know where to start.
-Then, what did you do? -Multiply the result of 48 by 17, increasing one by one until you scope 900.
-What does 17 number represent in the problem? -The multiple that must be found.
-What does 48 number represent? -The number by which it multiplies 17.
-What you have done? -I multiplied requested number by all possible numbers (supervised self-management).
Agenda: "I multiplied requested number by all possible numbers. Concept: number multiple is multiply by number all possible natural numbers".
The process continues in family.

iii. Interactive process: "Role Playing"
Bruno becomes the teacher of a small group of classmates to whom he teaches concept of number multiples (self-management).

iv. Analysis and interpretation
Communication between the teacher and Bruno regarding following situation.
-Do you already know how to define the multiple number? -Yes.
-How have you felt as a teacher? -Fine.
-You said to Alicia: very badly, why? -Because she didn´t know how to calculate the multiples.
-Why did you say "very bad"? -For her to learn.
-Therefore, was your intention good or bad? -Good.
-How do you think Alicia felt when you said "very badly"? -Wrong.
-This morning, how did you feel when you told teacher:
-Do you think teacher did with good or bad intentions? -Good (emotional semantic category).

v. Roles exchange
According to teacher's instructions, Bruno tells Alicia to develop an activity and, then, assess it, finally roles are exchanged (their actions previously learned).
Bruno: You must walk and count with drum sound, when I stop playing, you also have to stop, have you understood) -Yes (Alicia)).

vi. Empathy development
The teacher asks Bruno: -What do you think Alicia felt when you said "bad"? -I don t know.
-Express your possible feeling with finger paint (choose the color). You paint freely (priority of this concept is marked with red color).

Now, Alicia asks Bruno:
-What have you felt when I said "wrong"? -Very angry.

vii. Expression
Each partner chooses a finger paint colour and paints freely over the cardboard. -Why? -Because she did it wrong.
-During the exercise: Did she move with the sound rhythm? -Yes.
-Then, did that part do it right? -Yes.
-When the drum stopped, she didn´t stop? -Don´t.
-Therefore, did that part did it wrong? -Yes.
-So, could you have told her that did first part of exercise very well and another part wrong? -Yes.
-Do you think she would have felt better? -Yes.
-If teacher told you that you did the multiples exercise very well, but you only did the definition wrong, would you have felt better? -Yes.
-How many parties did the activities? -Two (self-management). Therefore, can behaviors have several parts? Yes.

ix. Modification situational
Finally, Bruno makes the following inputs in your AGENDA: "Multiple number is result of multiplying all the possible numbers by the number" (for transfer to school and family).

xi. Evaluation
In this section, a systematic evaluation of learned process is carried out, in order to assurance the planned aims have been correctly acquired through of ad hoc built scale (Table 3).  Statistical mean of measured criteria mentioned for perceptivecognitive variables have conformed "sensory" and "concept" variables respectively. Both variables constitute factor1 of the analysis, in order to analyze the set of variances and co-variances between themselves and with respect to "group" variable. To analyze these effects, it proceeded with the ANOVA W test of Mauchly ( As observed W statistical analysis rejects sphericity hypothesis = .32 (sig = .48), therefore data related to the univariate ANOVA F of the repeated measures intra-subject test are carried out below since it constitutes an index correction for small samples more stable (Table 5). For graphical observation of this results, graphs corresponding to differences found between both groups can be observed, distributed according to age range (Graphs 1-3).

Results
Significance critical levels indicate that there´s a positive influence between both variables: "sensory" and "concept": factor 1, whose most significant data are: Sphericity Assumed: sig = .00 and Greenhouse-Geisser: sig = .00.
Likewise, influence of this factor1 in relation to variable "group" shows that there´re significant differences in variance exerted by factor1 according to group type (factor1* group), whose data are: Sphericity Assumed: sig = .00 and Greenhouse-Geisser: sig = .00, which allows to conclude the program has found important differences between the EG and the GC, with significant improvements being observed along the 3 successive measures in participants that make up EG (Table 6). However, variances interaction between variables that make up factor1 and "age" variable show significant partial differences between participants age ranges. In this sense, post-hoc statistical test indicates that there´re differences between the 6-8 years´ age range with 9-11 years' age range (sig = .03) and with 12-14 years' interval (sig = .00), but there´re no differences between 9-11 years range and interval between 12 and 14 age years (sig = .81) ( Table   7). Based on observed means. * The mean difference is significant at the 0.05 level.

Graph 1-3:
Baseline factor1 evolution between the CG and CG, by age intervals.

Discussion
Children with ASD, who were trained according to program strategies, based on school, improved significantly more in relation to CG pairs. But, next to criteria evaluated, it highlighted those aspects related to self-management when they were readied in a previous process, which allows to adjust the proposals learned to new situations that may be similar. Therefore, learning would probably not have been successful, if they weren´t followed by functional environments, highly significant for the students, both in relation to family environment and to education inclusive ambit, which encourages participation of all factors, with an applied methodology, based on a highly functional, meaningful, coherent and natural environment, with last aim of facilitating learning self-management, as well as his independence and autonomy for development ( Figure 2). Likewise, participation of all factors involved, especially the family environment, is a fundamental variable that provides coherence to learning process implemented. Andersen, Bottcher & Danmeyer [18] show that, precisely, the reason for use of learning at home is to facilitate functionality and coherence of programs, which allows to child progress in knowledge increasingly complex.
Equally, study doesn´t rule out need to adapt social practices outside the family, encouraging society support, both to allow the child development and to enhance family formation itself, in order to achieve decisive quotas of real inclusion policies.
Finally, it´s important to highlight that all these processes can be widely favored by new technologies use in education adjusted to people with ASD. Peterson [19] offers a very significant study on adapted technologies during educational processes, which, according author, are underutilized in people with ASD, which may be depriving them of using important tools to reach their potential.
Similarly, Simonson [20], in Las Vegas´ Convention Acts, along the 15 articles of volume 2, reflects the importance of new technologies to support development of programs applied to people with ASD, indicating the most appropriate teaching strategies to facilitate their cognitive development.

Study Limitations
This study presents the limitations of research analysis with groups with educational specific needs they´re always small groups.
Also, it´s suitable to carry out longer duration tests to verify the data reflected in this research.