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. 2020 Mar 13;10(3):165.
doi: 10.3390/brainsci10030165.

Pre-School Teachers' Knowledge, Belief, Identification Skills, and Self-Efficacy in Identifying Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A Conceptual Framework to Identify Children with ASD

Sahar Taresh  1 , Nor Aniza Ahmad  1 , Samsilah Roslan  1 , Aini Marina Ma'rof  1 , Sumaia Zaid  2
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Pre-School Teachers' Knowledge, Belief, Identification Skills, and Self-Efficacy in Identifying Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A Conceptual Framework to Identify Children with ASD

Sahar Taresh et al. Brain Sci. .

Abstract

Recently, the identification and detection of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has become an essential issue under ASD intervention services. The high percentage of ASD among children requires preschool teachers to recognizse children's abnormal development and identify them at an early stage, followed by referral to specialists. Therefore, this identification calls for a specific ability among preschool teachers, identified as knowledge, belief, identification skills, and self-efficacy (KBISSE). This conceptual framework aims to utilize the current literature to present a discussion on preschool teachers' KBISSE in identifying children with ASD and making decisions to refer children suspected with ASD to specialists. The conceptual framework is discussed based on social cognitive theory (SCT) and the health belief model (HBM). The conceptual framework emphasizes the need for preschool teachers to be educated in ASD via an educational module that could increase teachers' self-efficacy in identifying children with ASD. Besides, knowledge in ASD, belief in ASD, and identification skills are also necessary variables for building the educational module. The educational module is useful for guiding future research on preschool teachers' identification of children with any disability, one of which is ASD, and subsequent specialist referral at an early stage.

Keywords: autism spectrum disorder (ASD); belief; identify; knowledge; preschool teachers; self-efficacy; skills.

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The research problem statement [2,8,21,22,23,24,25,26].
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A conceptual framework for identifying children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
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Identification skills process.
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