Development of a Basic Work Skills Assessment Tool for Adolescents with Autism

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop a basic work skills assessment tool for adolescents with a diagnosis of autism through content validity, and interrater and intrarater reliability using was developed from a literature review and was to record the number of prompts. Six adolescents with autism aged 13-16 years were selected by purposive sampling according to the certain criteria. Two raters observed the work task performance of each participant and recorded the number of prompts in order to analyze interrater reliability. After 2 weeks of allowing for wash out effect, one rater who was also the tester repeated the same process, and then intrarater reliability was calculated. The ICCs of Interrater reliability in scores of work abilities, and work attitudes, and total scores The ICCs of intrarater reliability in scores of work abilities, work attitudes and total scores were its moderate to high reliability, the interrater reliability was acceptable but intrarater reliability was not.

Keywords

• Adolescents with Autism
• Assessment tool
• Basic work skills