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Naturalistic Assessment Procedures

Naturalistic Assessment Procedures

Observations

PEER INTERACTION

  •  Social Interaction Observation (SIO; school age and adolescents,) (Bauminger et al., 2002, 2003, 2007ab).
  •  Autism Peer Interaction Observation Scale for Preschool (APIOS-P; Bauminger-Zviely, N., & Shefer, 2021, Autism). 

FRIENDSHIP

  •  Friendship Observation Scale (FOS) for school ages and adolescence (Bauminger et al., 2008ab, 2010ab; Solomon et al., 2011)
  •  FOS-Young (FOS-Y) for preschoolers (Bauminger-Zviely & Agam Ben Artzi, 2014)

SOCIO-COMMUNICATION

  •  Peer talk: Pragmatic Rating Scale-Young (PRS-Y), adaptation of the PRS for preschoolers (Bauminger-Zviely et al., 2014, JCPP)
  •  Speech acts: adaptation of the Speech Acts Taxonomy (SAT) to Hebrew and to ASD (Bauminger-Zviely et al., 2017, JADD)

SOCIO-COGNITION

  •  Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) during peer interaction (Kimhi & Bauminger-Zviely, 2012).

AFFECTIVE EXPRESSION

  •  Jealousy: In preadolescence (Bauminger, 2004); in preschoolers (Bauminger-Zviely, & Shoham Kugelmas, 2012).
  •  Loneliness: (Bauminger & Kasari 2000; Bauminger, Shulman & Agam, 2003)
  •  The Minimally Verbal Emotion Expression Scale (MVEES; Bauminger-Zviely & Bar Yehuda, 2016)

MOTOR FUNCTIONING and MOTOR COORDINATION-JOINT ACTION

  • The Individual Motor Observation Scale (IMOS; Bauminger-Zviely et al., 2017; Estrugo et al., 2023), evaluate child's gross and fine motor abilities
  • The Joint Action mirroring and complementing task (Bar-Yehuda & Bauminger-Zviely, 2024) evaluate children's ability to coordinate their action with a peer partner during social situations. 

 

Questionnaires 

  • The Social Play Questionnaire (SPQ): Therapist‑Rated Play Skills (Bauminger-Zviely, Eytan, Hoshmand., & Rajwan, Ben – Shlomo, 2020; Hoshmand & Bauminger-Zviely, unpublished Manuel, BIU, Faculty of Education).
  •  The Social Conversation Questionnaire (SCQ): Therapist‑Rated Conversation Skills (Skills (Bauminger-Zviely, Eytan, Hoshmand & Rajwan, Ben – Shlomo, 2020; Rajwan Ben Shlomo & Bauminger-Zviely, unpublished Manuel, BIU, Faculty of Education).