The APKE is an evaluation tool that concerns the profiling of social communication Disorders in children and adolescents, with the ultimate aim of better understanding of therapeutic needs. The term “social communication” means the ability of the individual to use his communicative skills to interact with other people and not just to meet his needs.
APKE
The APKE is based on the evolutionary course of social communication from birth up to the age of 8 + years.
It evaluates seven development sectors, each of which consists of sixteen questions and for its validity, where necessary, there are 2 sub-questions. The areas it evaluates are: sociability, socialization, communication, play, language, speech, scripture.
Το μοντέλο των κύκλων
The model of cycles is an evaluation tool that helps better communication between the expert and the parent, helping them to focus and perceive together the difficulties of the child with social communication disorder. With the use of the development profile of each individual, information is collected for the design of the therapeutic program, the evolutionary course of the individual is monitored, or not the choice of the therapeutic approach is confirmed and Promote cooperation between specialists and parents with a view to better communicating the two sides.
The model of cycles is an evaluation tool that helps better communication between the expert and the parent, helping them to focus and perceive together the difficulties of the child with social communication disorder. With the use of the development profile of each individual, information is collected for the design of the therapeutic program, the evolutionary course of the individual is monitored, or not the choice of the therapeutic approach is confirmed and Promote cooperation between specialists and parents with a view to better communicating the two sides.
With Intelligent question Management system
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The profile is completed based on quadrants depicted in the figure below. The choice of the quadrant serves to scale the individual’s abilities and difficulties. Each quadrant contains developmental questions that shall classify the skills that the individual should be presenting according to their chronological age.
The final profile extracted from the use of the APKE presents color skills and difficulties of the individual. The colors used are a gradient of colors from blue to red. The blue means that the skills have been mastered, while the red that skills are missing. Intermediate colors relate to emerging skills, which means that lighter shades of blue indicate that the skills exist but not all are complete, and corresponding light shades of red mean that most of the Skills do not exist but some/some of them may appear sporadically or incomplete.
The APKE does not have as its sole objective the support of the specialist in the planning of the appropriate therapeutic program and the monitoring of the evolution and the support of the parents to understand the nature of their child’s difficulties. So the evaluation process is an important opportunity to achieve this goal.
The above example concerns a girl in the spectrum of autism aged 5.4 years, one understands from the profile that there are no difficulties in the field of writing (seventh cycle), that her speech does not exhibit difficulties in production (sixth cycle) but in Length of the phrase, this is consistent with the findings in the field of language and game (fifth and fourth cycles respectively), where in both areas has managed to develop only the first quadrant of the sectors. This particular incident probably faces additional linguistic difficulties and is not concerned about its mental potential because the area of writing that involves learning skills seems accomplished for its age.
What it offers
With a wide range of functions it creates an easy to use and functional application where it aims to help diagnose.
- Fully functional on all devices (tablet, smartphone, PC)
- Can save incidents for quick Search later
- Save all assessments made sorted by date or incident
- Possibility to continue the evaluation and after a long break from where you left it
- Intelligent management of questions based on the age of the incident with a view to the best possible opinion
