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Manuel Ojea Rúa es Catedrático de Orientación Educativa (3492563057A0511). Doctor en Psicología- Pedagogía por la U. de Vigo. Especialista en Neuropsicología. Co-director de doctorado en la EIDO de la U. Vigo. Miembro del GI-PS1 (U.Vigo). Es autor de 58 libros, 218 artículos en revistas científícas. Ex-profesor del departamento de AIPSE (U.de Vigo). Ex-Presidente de Instituto de Investigaciones en Autismo. https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-9787-2520. mail: moxea@uvigo.es
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Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, 66(4), 58888-58897. BJSTR. MS.ID.010362.
http://dx.doi.org/10.26717/BJSTR.2026.66.010362
PhD Manuel Ojea Rúa
ABSTRACT
Autism
spectrum disorder can be defined as a neuropsychological developmental
disorder, featuring severe limitations in information processing, especially in
sensory perception and working memory, which makes it impossible to establish
the necessary pathways in working memory to create episodic memory; it's the
relationship between episodic and semantic memory where context-specific
recovery is facilitated. Likewise, from a behavioural perspective, it may
involve limitations of differing degrees of intensity in social interaction and
communication, as well as stereotyped and restrictive behaviours. This study analysed
the consequences of applying the method, called by author the ‘Connectivity
Theory’, aiming to assess the improvement in global academic development,
specifically owing the positive correlation with to-be-attributed dependent
variables, which constitute the different phases and levels of
neuropsychological information processing. A total of 6 people with autism
participated in this study. The data, analysed throughout 2 school years, were assessed
according to the General Linear Model for Repeated Measures (4 measurements),
which enabled us identify the intersection between the learning factor 1-2:
“learning” and the process variables dependents.
Results found through the analysis of
parameter estimates showed a significant positive correlation (< .05)
between the factor (codes 1 and 2) and all the dependent variables used,
exception being the variable related to stereotyped and restrictive behaviours:
"stereotypies" variable.
KEY
WORDS
Autism spectrum disorder, neural
connectivity, information processing, and applied functional methods.
ABSTRACT:
This article presents the experimental validation of the Revised Perceptual-Cognitive-Behavioural Precision Scale (PS 2nd ed.) for the Diagnosis of the ASD (Ojea, 2026a), which has been specifically published as free access by Ojea (2026b) and constitutes the validated extension of their original scale, the Perceptual-Cognitive Scale for the Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder Revised (EPPC-ASD-R) (Ojea, 2024) A total of 346 participants were involved in this new edition, comprising 254 ‘males’ and 92 ‘females’; the study found a high level of statistical reliability, as determined by Cronbach’s alpha reliability analysis (α= .91). Subsequently, the experimental justification is presented, based on the analysis of the transformation of the direct scores (PD) into the typical scores (Z), from which the corresponding percentiles (P) are defined, relating both to the variables being analysed and to the dimensional categories comprising those variables. Final data for which are coded on a quantitative scale, constituting the final diagnostic analysis. The whole process has been analysed experimentally through specific regression analysis, which demonstrates the significance of the variables collected for the analysis and, consequently, highlights the importance of the dimensions analysed, concluding with an effective diagnosis of ASD.
KEYWORDS:
Autism Spectrum Disorder, Specific Diagnosis, Cognition, Perception, Social and Behavioural analysis.
Article Link : https://ijmra.in/v9i6/77.php
PDF link : https://ijmra.in/v9i6/Doc/77.pdf
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Regarding the variables of age and gender can be seen in Table 1, which corresponds to 254 (>: "males” and 92 “females”. The Cronbach's alpha reliability analysis is significantly high (=.91), which can be inferred to indicate a high degree of statistical reliability in the study (Ojea, 2026). Finally, the fundamental data that shaped the ASD diagnostic process are indicated, as the direct scores from the observation dimensions (DS) are transformed into their corresponding typical values to continue the rest of the study (ZS), which finally located each Z-score for each participant within the corresponding percentile (P), concluding the ASD diagnostic process.
Abstract
Ojea (2023) has published a Perceptual-Behavioural Precision Scale (PS-PC-ASD) for the diagnosis of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which are made up of three main domains weighted based on the number of items that each domain contains: 1) the perceptual-cognitive domain, 2) the social domain, and 3) the practical domain, in the aim of incorporating the measurement of cognitive values that involve the level of neuropsychological and biological processing of information, starting from the input of information of the sensory-perceptual memory into the semantic and episodic memory if possible, as well as the interconceptual relationships developed by the coding processes, which provide this access through working memory.
This study compared the data resulting from the ASD' diagnosis, found in accordance with the PS-PC-ASD Scale, in relation to the Autism Diagnostic Interview Revised (ADI-R) (Rutter et al., 2003), which is based mainly on the basic criteria of the currently official International Classification of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) (2013).
The main aim of this study is therefore to observe whether there're statistically significant differences in the diagnosis of people with ASD between the two Scales, the ADI-R Scale and the PS-PC-ASD Scale.
The comparative levels, found through the Wilcoxon statistical test, showed that there were significant differences in the diagnostic results of the participants, according to diagnostic Scale applied (sig: .00).
Furthermore, the Kruskal-Wallis non-parametric test found the variables of 'gender' and 'age' of the participants were interdependent for both Scales. Results didn't were shown significant differences in the variable ‘gender’ for the ADI-R Scale, non-significant critical levels were obtained (sig: .27), nor for the PS-PC-ASD Scale (sig: .81). However, when the PS-PC-ASD Scale was used, significant critical levels were observed for the variable ‘age’ (sig: .01), whereas in the ADI-R Scale, no statistically significant levels were found for ‘age’ variable (sig: .09).
Keywords: ASD, Diagnostic Scale, Cognition, Perception, Social, Behaviour, Neuropsychological Processing.
Ojea, M. (2026). Validation of Precision Sale Perceptive-Cognitive to Peple with ASD diagnosis PS-PC-ASD'. European Journal of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, 4(1), 147-168.
Ojea (2023) has published the Precision Scale Perceptivo- Cognitive (PS-PC-ASD), with the aim of determining the diagnosis of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which consists of three main weighted domains: 1) the perceptual-cognitive domain, 2) the social domain, and 3) the practical domain, in order to incorporate the measurement of cognitive neural values, which involve the level of neuropsychological and biological processing of information, from the input of information through perceptual sensory memory to semantic memory and its related episodic memory, as well as the development of interconceptual relationships that develop throughout the processes of information coding through working memory.
In this study, the PS-PC-ASD scale has been validated for a total of N: 346 participants, which is a significantly broad sample, being a highly specific group, of which 112 don’t have any specific diagnosis, 140 have a level 1 autism diagnosis, 67 have level 2, and 27 have level 3, as the International Classification of the American Psychiatric Association (APA, 2013).
The comparative data, obtained using a one-way ANOVA test, as well as the subsequent transformation of all direct scores (DS) found in the observation questionnaire into typical scores (Z), were used to construct the three categorical dimensions with typified scores: 1) processing category, 2) social category, and 3) behavioural category, whose typical sum provides a highly accurate analysis of explanatory variance, analysed using stepwise linear regression analysis, in which the three dimensions exhibit significant critical levels explaining the diagnostic data within the three categories (sig: .00).
Finally, the correspondence of the total sum of typical scores found in accordance with the corresponding percentile, in intervals of five, the 50th percentile has corresponded to the typical average sum of -1.38, from which point a diagnosis compatible with autism can be definitively considered. From this percentile onwards, an increase in intensity implies greater severity in the diagnostic group for this disorder.
In essence, the initial data found for the construction of the Scale has been corroborated, concluding that the Diagnostic Precision scale is a highly effective and positive instrument for the specific diagnostic precision of individuals with ASD.
Manuel Ojea Rúa
Conceptualmente, el trastorno del espectro autista (TEA) se define como una discapacidad relacionada con las alteraciones del neurodesarrollo, en relación con la vía de transmisión de la información a nivel cerebral, a través del sistema funcional del ácido gamma- aminobutírico o sistema GABAérgico, que es observado conductualmente a través de déficits manifiestos en el ámbito de la comunicación, la interacción social y los comportamientos repetitivos y restrictivos, como así está recogido por la Clasificación Internacional de las Enfermedades: DSM-5 (Asociación Americana de Psiquiatría (APA), 2013). La tasa prevalente, según los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades, se sitúa alrededor de 1/44 personas nacidas, en una proporción de 4 hombres por 1.5 mujeres. Pues bien, con el fin de analizar si existen diferencias significativas en la adquisición de competencias cognoscitivas y el desarrollo de las habilidades complejas cognitivas en los estudiantes con TEA, el diseño de esta investigación se ha basado en la realización de 30 encuestas en centros educativos regulares (N= 30), en los cuales se escolarizan estudiantes con TEA. Los datos han sido analizados mediante la prueba comparativa no paramétrica U de Mann-Wihtney. Las conclusiones indican que los estudiantes con TEA, que han seguido un modelo basado en proyectos cooperativos, mejoran sensiblemente en el ámbito psico- social y educativo, en relación con sus pares que han continuado una enseñanza tradicional de tipo magistral. Palabras- clave: Trastorno del espectro autista, desarrollo curricular, cognición, análisis relacional.
Conceptually, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is made up of a disability regarding to neurodevelopmental disorders, relationship with the transmission pathway of information at brain level, through the functional system of gamma-aminobutyric acid or GABAergic system, which is observed through manifest deficits in the field of communication, social interaction and restrictive behaviours, as it´s included in the International Classification of Diseases: DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association (APA), 2013), whose prevalence, according Center for Disease Control and Prevention, around 1/44 persons born has been reported with a ratio of 4 males to 1.5 females. In this research, in seeking to observe whether there're significant differences regarding the acquisition of cognitive competences and the development of complex cognitive abilities in students with ASD, the research design based on 30 interviews in regular educational centres (N=30), where students with ASD are schooled. Data found tested using the non-parametric Mann-Wihtney U Test. Conclusions indicate that students with ASD, who have followed a cooperative project-based model, improve significantly in the psycho-social and educational domains, regarding to their peers who have received a traditional master class teaching. Keywords: Autism spectrum disorder, curriculum development, cognition, relational analysis.
Aunque el manual va dirigido a todas las
personas, que le guste la lectura, el libro constituye una narrativa, en relación con los
acontecimientos, que vive Dani, un niño con autismo, su forma de percibir la
información y actuar en el mundo, a partir de sus características peculiares. Para
ello, el manual se halla estructurado en 32 Capítulos complementados con imágenes
relacionadas, con el fin de facilitar la creación de nodos neurales en los
niños con autismo y éstos puedan facilitar la comprensión semántica de su
lectura.
ISBN: 979-13-7012-993-4
DEPÓSITO LEGAL: AL6280-2025
Ojea, M. (2025. Mi pequeño Hámster y Yo. Una historia personal fascinante. ISBN: 979-13-70-12-993-4. DEPÓSITO LEGAL: AL 6280-2025. Unión Europea: Ediciones LETRAME. www.LETRAME.com
PRESENTACIÓN DEL TEST PARA LA EVALUACIÓN DE PERSONAS CON TRASTORNOS DEL ESPECTRO AUTISTA EP-PC-TEA
La presentación tedrá lugar el día 3 de setiembre de 2025, a las 19 horas, en la Universidade do Minho (Braga- Portugal).
La Escala de Precisión Diagnóstica Perceptivo- Cognitiva- Conductual del Trastorno del Espectro Autista permite complementar el análisis del diagnóstico del autismo, a través de la medida de las variables que conforman el procesamiento neuropsicológico de la información humano, con el fin de evitar los elevados errores del diagnóstico del TEA existentes en la actualidad, derivados de análisis unilateral del componente criterial conductual de las actuales Escalas tradicionales. La baremación empírica de la Escala, realizada para N= 75, ha permitido obtener una fiabilidad estadística del Alpha de Cronbach medio superior al.91 en las diez dimensiones que conforman la Escala: 1) comprensión, 2) significantes, 3) categorías conceptuales, 4) relaciones- nodos neurales, 5) relaciones intercategoriales, 6) recuperación semántica, 7) interacción social, 8) comunicación social, 9) comportamientos estereotipados, y 10) comportamientos restrictivos. El cálculo estadístico de las diez dimensiones se ha agrupado en torno a tres grandes categorías del análisis: 1) procesamiento perceptivocognitivo, 2) interacción social, y 3) comportamiento. Los análisis concluyentes indican que la categoría del procesamiento explica el 88.52 de la varianza total explicativa acumulada, mientras que la categoría social el 10.19% y el comportamiento el restante 1.28, lo cual demuestra la importancia del análisis del factor dimensional perceptivo- cognitivo para poder establecer con seguridad los percentiles medios que permiten realizar una conclusión diagnóstica relativa a cada nivel de TEA, de acuerdo con los niveles elaborados por la clasificación internacional de la Asociación Americana de Psiquiatría DSM-5 (APA, 2013).
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