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Thursday, 27 November 2025

ANÁLISIS COMPARATIVO DE LOS MODELOS DE ENSEÑANZA-APRENDIZAJE EN ESTUDIANTES CON TRASTORNO DEL ESPECTRO AUTISTA




En B. Silva et al. XVIII Congresso Internacional de Psicopedagogía, 2025 (pp. 2083-2092). Braga (Portugal): Centro de Investigação em Educação, do Instituto de Educação, da Universidade do Minho  Universidade do Mihno.

Manuel Ojea Rúa


Resumen 

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. 

Abstract 

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. 



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Tuesday, 28 October 2025

LIBRO: MI PEQUEÑO HÁMSTER Y YO. UNA HISTORIA PERSONAL FASCINANTE

 

MI PEQUEÑO HÁMSTER Y YO. UNA HISTORIA PERSONAL FASCINANTE



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



Wednesday, 22 October 2025

EL DESARROLLO DE LA CONECTIVIDAD NEURONAL EN PERSONAS CON AUTISMO. BREVE INTRODUCCIÓN AL PROGRAMA DE DESARROLLO DE LOS PROCESOS COGNITIVOS SUPERIORES


Manuel Ojea Rúa

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La Región 22/19/2025, Xornal Escolar, p. 8



Friday, 29 August 2025

PRESENTACIÓN DEL TEST PARA LA EVALUACIÓN DE PERSONAS CON TRASTORNOS DEL ESPECTRO AUTISTA EP-PC-TEA

 XVIII CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL GALEGO- PORTUGUÊS DE PSICOPEDAGOGIA

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).






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Miguel Ángel Pinto: mapperu@outlook.com

SINOPSIS:

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).

Friday, 15 August 2025

THE BENEFITS OF COOPERATIVE TEACHING APPLIED THROUGH PROJECTS TO IMPROVE LEARNING FOR STUDENTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

 


The Benefits of Cooperative Teaching Applied Through Projects to Improve Learning for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

PhD Manuel Ojea Rúa

 
https://ijcsrr.org/single-view/?id=23781&pid=23653
DOI: https://ijcsrr.org/single-view/?id=23781&pid=23653


Abstract:

People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are characterised by severe limitations in nodal connectivity of information, which can involve some or several levels of the neuropsychological information processing system to various degrees. For this reason, in besides treating behaviours formally expressed by international classifications, it´s necessary to apply programmes to facilitate functional connectivity and fluidity over knowledge processing, in this sense, the cooperative project-based method can help neural networks interact and support the perception and subsequent processing of information.

A total of 10 participants took part in this study, divided into two groups of 5 students each. One of the groups included a student with level 1 ASD (n: 5). All students belong to the same class and are studying all subjects corresponding to first grade of secondary education. Results confirmed the hypothesis that project-based work in small cooperative groups is effective, with all students showing improvement compared to the other two didactic methods implemented: practical and expository. Moreover, it was also observed that the group in which the student with ASD participates has not impaired the knowledge process, but, on the contrary, provides benefits that exceed the second group of exclusively neurotypical students (n: 5) in the statistics applied.

Keywords:

Autism spectrum disorder, Cooperative Learning, genetics and nodal relationships, perceptual-cognitive processing, project work.


Wednesday, 28 May 2025

DIFFERENTIAL ANALYSIS OF FOUR TEACHING- LEARNING MODELS APPLYING TO STUDENTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

 International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention (IJHSSI)


Por Manuel Ojea (2025)

Differential Analysis of Four Teaching-Learning Models Applying to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention (IJHSSI), Volume 14 Issue 5 || May 2025 || PP. 164-171. ISSN (Online): 2319 – 7722, ISSN (Print): 2319 – 7714. www.ijhssi.org

https://www.ijhssi.org/vol14-issue5.html

https://www.ijhssi.org/papers/vol14(5)/1405164171.pdf


ABSTRACT

Conceptually, autism spectrum disorder is shaped a disability linked to neurodevelopmental developmental disorders, regarding to the information transmission through the functional system of gamma-aminobutyric acid or GABAergic system, which is observed throughout deficits in the communication area, social interaction and restrictive behaviours, as defined by the International Classification of Diseases (DSM-5) of the American Psychiatric Association (2013) (APA). This study analyzed the implementation of greater or lesser intensity in applying regarding four teaching-learning models will be able encourage the overall development of this diagnostic group. Results showed that educational models based on projects, through the higher intensity of cooperative learning among peers, combined with a partial support process, increased the cognitive and curricular development of this population, which, in fact, was observed in the critical levels of significance tested through Kruskal-Wallis Test analysis.

KEY WORDS: 

Autism Spectrum Disorder, Educational Models, Deductive and Relational Abilities, Mechanical and Meaningful Memory.


Saturday, 22 March 2025

BEHAVIOURAL IMPROVEMENT OF PEOPLE WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

 


 Behavioural Improvement of People with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Language, Literature and Education: Research Updates Vol. 2, 20 March 2025 , Page 117-136
https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/lleru/v2/4016


Abstract
People with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are defined by the International Classification of Mental Disorders. The basic aim of this study is to prove whether an integrated psycho-pedagogical program, structured in accordance with the psychosocial and educational mediation model, would lead to greater behavioural and educational action training in people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The program has basically focused on psycho-cyto-cognitive mediation criteria, based on the progressive creation of neural networks and connections between information and acquired behaviours according to the particular needs of people with ASD selected according to the basic competencies initially assessed. An experimental research design on three measures has been based, on one pre-test (I), and two post-tests (II-III) was realized. A total of 14 children with ASD participated in the intervention program specific ad hoc applied for two years. Results found through comparative analysis Friedman Test and Multivariate Tests Within- Subjects Effects, showed that the intensive intervention improved children´s behaviour and their functional adaptation to the context and, in conclusion, social life and inclusion improved. More experiments and larger data sets will be needed however the indications are there that a collective learning environment needs to be created, therefore this is a very timely paper. This can be tested further. In conclusion, the integrated program can be considered an effective intervention to promote the development of social skills.
Keywords: 
  • Spectrum disorder
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  • behaviour skills
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  • social abilities
  •  
  • social mediation
  •  
  • neural networks.

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Wednesday, 29 January 2025

CLAVES PSICONEUROLÓGICAS PARA EL DESARROLLO EN PERSONAS CON AUTISMO

Elementos- clave para desarrollar relaciones cognitivas entre la información entrante y el contenido previo en personas con trastorno del espectro autista para facilitar el desarrollo del aprendizaje (publicado en en el Xornal EscolarLa Región, 29-01-2025).


NEXOS PSICONEUROLÓGICOS PARA EL APRENDIZAJE EN PERSONAS CON TEA


Thursday, 31 October 2024

NEW CONCEPTUAL PARADIGM OF AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER (NUEVO PARADIGMA CONCEPTUAL DEL TRASTORNO DEL ESPECTRO AUTISTA)

Manuel Ojea Rúa, 31-10-2024





New Conceptual Paradigm of Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Manuel Ojea Rúa, PhD. University of Vigo, Spain, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9787-2520.


ABSTRACT: The two dimensions currently included in international classifications should include a third defining dimension, regarding to the analysis of intensity of needs relationship to the main parameters of psychoneural information processing, within the so-called processual dimension: - perception and sensory memory, - encoding and categorical grouping, - access of information to permanent memory, and - recovery of information in semantic terminology. These new criteria constitute basic elements governing the neurocerebral process in a global sense, which will allow the persistence or improvement of observable social and restrictive-stereotyped behaviours related to the two dimensions included in the currently classifications. An exhaustively analysed Case Study in all its evolution over 32 years, has allowed successive comparative analyses regarding the differential phases with the specific autistic diagnosis, whose final results allowed confirming new paradigmatic findings of new paradigmatic definitions of autistic disorder, its differential diagnostic processing and, therefore, the new specific kinds of psychoeducational intervention. 

KEY WORDS: Autistic Spectrum Disorder. New paradigm. Conceptual- propositional. Diagnosis. Intervention pycho- social and educational.


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Tuesday, 22 October 2024

ESCALA PERCEPTIVO-COGNITIVA DE DIAGNÓSTICO DEL TRASTORNO DEL ESPECTRO AUTISTA-REVISADA (EPPC-TEA-R)

ESCALA PERCEPTIVO- COGNITIVA DE DIAGNÓSTICO DEL ESPECTRO AUTISTA- REVISADA (EPPC-TEA-R) 

(Ojea, 2024)

Editorial Científica Digital LTDA (Guarajá - São Paulo - Brasil)
















Síntesis:

De acuerdo con los avances científicos en el ámbito del diagnóstico y la intervención de las personas con trastorno del espectro autista, las teorías proposicionales más actuales del trastorno se basan en concepciones de tipo sistémico cíclico, que giran en torno al funcionamiento de los presupuestos básicos neuropsicológicos del procesamiento de la información. En este sentido, desde el primer momento en que se produce la entrada del estímulo informativo, a través de la memoria sensorial, hasta su almacenamiento en la memoria permanente y su posterior recuperación, se lleva a cabo un complejo entramado de redes relacionales para el funcionamiento procesual, de forma que cualquier limitación o bloqueo en la creación de estas relaciones nodales pueden generar importantes alteraciones en el sistema del procesamiento neuronal a nivel general. En efecto, en las personas con trastorno del espectro autista se producen particularidades específicas en el conjunto de los niveles de procesamiento cognitivo, debido precisamente a la presencia evidente de limitaciones interconexionales o relacionales en el sistema de conexiones GABAérgico del sistema cerebral, lo que ha sido refutado por múltiples investigaciones empíricas en la actualidad. Esta Escala de diagnóstico intenta, pues, realizar un análisis exhaustivo de todos los niveles funcionales perceptivo- cognitivos y las redes relacionales que giran sobre su funcionalidad, con el fin de complementar los estudios de diagnóstico evolutivo- conductuales, recogidos por las clasificaciones internacionales en la actualidad y, en consecuencia, aportar un instrumento de evaluación específico, que, como se muestra en la justificación empírica, se ha corroborado con un elevado nivel de fiabilidad y eficacia para proceder a una conclusión diagnóstica del trastorno, tanto a nivel general, como en relación a los tres niveles de necesidad de la categorización actual del trastorno.

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Wednesday, 9 October 2024

BOOK CHAPTER 2024

Comparative Study of Three Psycho-Socio- Educational Intervention Models to Facilitate the Comprehensive Development of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (https://stm.bookpi.org/DHRNI-V7/article/view/15916). In Ahmed Kamal Dyab, Disease and Health Research: New Insights Vol. 7, 9 (pp. 138-159). BP International. 

https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/dhrni/v7/2440
ISBN 978-93-48119-82-7 (Print)
ISBN 978-93-48119-84-1 (eBook)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/dhrni/v7


Por Manuel Ojea Rúa



Abstract

The Psychosocial Mediation Model is not exclusive of the need for service provision, nor of the elaboration of specific programs, but it emphasizes professional and formative empowerment, in order to generate the competencies needed by teachers and families for adequately addressing students in their context, trying to provide a global response to demanding situations. This research consists of a comparative analysis of the results obtained in the development of students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) found as a consequence of the application of three basic models of educational guidance: 1) the Psychosocial Mediation Model; 2) the Counselling Model; and 3) the Services Model, delivered through services developed over three years, distributed across three experimental groups corresponding to each of these guidance models.

A total of 18 students with ASD of different levels, ages, and genders participated in the study, assigned to one of the three following groups: a social mediation model group, a counselling model group, and a services model group.

A study of the data was undertaken by analysing the multivariate contrasts of repeated measures ANOVA for a factor of three measures, both for the variable group types (three groups), as well as for the participants’ level, age, and gender variables.

Results show the statistically significant benefits of the social mediation model. Indeed, data found over three successive measurements indicate that in the third comparative measure, the Psychosocial Mediation Model shows comparative improvements, corroborated by significantly higher statistical means in regard to the other educational models, being mean for the Psychosocial Mediation Model (µ: 4.00), in relation to the control models, the Counselling Model (µ: 2.66) and the Services Model (µ: 2.33), whose critical values are statistically significantly different between the three models. However, when the ASD level interacts with the intervention model applied, the differences found do not show significant critical statistics, mainly in ASD level-3. The neurocognitive processing levels will affect psychosocial integral development, both the learning process itself and the development of social interaction and communication skills and the positive development of restrictive behaviours observable in people with ASD.

Keywords: 
  • Autism spectrum disorders
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  • educational counselling
  •  
  • social mediation
  •  
  • psychoeducational intervention.

Wednesday, 2 October 2024

PRESENTACIÓN DEL LIBRO: TEA, ROMPIENDO MUROS

 PRESENTACIÓN DEL LIBRO, 3-10-2024



SÍNTESIS DEL LIBRO EN EL PERIÓDICO LA REGIÓN, 2-10-2024







Saturday, 31 August 2024

SUPERACIÓN DEL AUTISMO O DIAGNÓSTICO INICIAL ERRÓNEO

 

Proceso perceptual de superación del trastorno del espectro autista o diagnóstico inicial erróneo

Por M. Ojea , agosto 2024

Capítulo de libro publicado en "Autismo. Uma abordagem multiprofesional", vol. 3(2) (pp. 29- 43). Guarujá, São Paulo, Brasil: Editora Científica Digital Ltda. ISBN: 978-65-5360-729-3. DOI:   10.37885/240817331


Resumen

El Trastorno del Espectro Autista se caracteriza por la presencia de particularidades en las redes neurales de la transmisión flexible de la información, que afecta a los niveles perceptivo- cognitivos y socio- conductuales. Esta investigación constituye un Estudio de Caso Único longitudinal realizado a lo largo de 32 años, estructurado en cinco intervalos- fases evolutivas (0–4.5; 4.6–9: 9.1–12; 12.1–16.5; 16.6–32 años de edad), que confirma la importancia de la influencia de las redes neurales sobre las demás variables que engloban el grupo sintomático del trastorno. Los cambios sucesivos diferenciales a través de las cinco fases de análisis, en relación con las variables “perceptivo”, “social” y “conducta” del análisis, son altamente significativos, que han sido hallados mediante la prueba comparativa de Friedam, mientras que la variable “nodos” se mantiene constante, con un nivel 0 de dificultad. Asimismo, como muestra el análisis de correlación de Pearson, las variables evolutivas del desarrollo se relacionan mutuamente de forma significativa para un nivel de .01 de significación estadística. Las conclusiones permiten confirmar que la variable relativa a la elaboración de relaciones nodales “nodos” influye de manera decisiva en la mejora evolutiva del resto de las variables analizadas, modificando progresivamente el grupo sintomático del trastorno, por lo que se señala que las variables neuropsicológicas del procesamiento neuropsicológico de la información, especialmente, aquellas variables relacionadas con la capacidad de elaboración de redes relacionales del procesamiento deben ser analizadas exhaustivamente de forma complementaria a los criterios socio- conductuales, recogidos en las clasificaciones actuales, para evitar posibles errores iniciales en las conclusiones diagnósticas.

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Tuesday, 27 August 2024

REMODELACIÓN NEURONAL COMO FACTOR PREDICTOR DEL TRASTORNO DEL ESPECTRO AUTISTA

Neuronal Remodelling as a Predictor of Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis

Manuel Ojea & Lydia Castro 

Agosto, 2024


Abstract

People with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are a neurodevelopmental symptom group characterized by significant deficits in information connectivity, mainly caused by specific genetic mutations affecting the fluency of the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABAergic) system. This disruption, to a greater or lesser degree, hinders the interactive process of incoming stimuli with previously stored information, preventing working memory from fulfilling its role of facilitating access to information in permanent memory and later recovery. In addition to the genetic components, environmental processes occurring, above all, in early childhood, related to specific organic and severe psycho-emotional diseases can produce the same effects in the brain system as the genetic karyotypic component through the concept of neuronal remodelling. In this sense, this research aims to empirically show the influence of neuronal remodelling on the GABAergic pathway leading to the traits of autism spectrum behaviour.

A total of 175 participants from the three levels of ASD intensity have participated in this study. Data have been analysed through Linear Logistic Regression, which shows that both components, the genetic process and the environmental process, significantly influence the neural connective pathway that relates information, unlike other operationalized covariates, such as gender or age of the participants. Likewise, as shown by the Chi-Square Test, the interactions between genetic and environmental variables showed no differences in their interaction regarding the connectivity level that would explain the different levels of disorder. However, when there is a combination of genetic mutations in the diagnostic karyotype, there are significant differences between the genetic group and the environmental process over the neural network. 

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Ojea, M., & Castro, L. (2024). Neuronal Remodelling as a Predictor of Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis. International Journal of Psychological Studies, 16(3), 74-75. DOI:10.5539/ijps.v16n3p74 https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijps/article/view/0/50560

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Friday, 12 July 2024

GENETICA Y REMODELACIÓN NEURONAL EN EL AUTISMO (GENETIC AND NEURONAL REMODELING IN AUTISM)

Genetic-Environmental Components Associated with the Etiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder 

            European Journal of Science, Innovation and Technology,4(3), 394-410, 2024. ISSN: 2786-4936.


https://ejsit-journal.com/index.php/ejsit/article/view/466



Por Lydia Castro y Manuel Ojea 





ABSTRACT

The conceptual evolution of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from a propositional configuration is defined as a multilateral process of neurodevelopment, based on a particular process determined by the presence of pyramidal neurons, which show a dendritic increase of alterations in the system of neuronal connections, which form a regulatory network of pyramidal glutamatergic activity. The etiology is basically due to multiple possible genetic mutations or environmental processes which, in turn, may cause specific neuronal remodeling, determined by certain psycho-organic conditions, whose consequences are observed in the GABAergic cerebral connexional pathways.

The scope of this study is to verify the significance of factorial clustering that directly or indirectly affect the genetic mutation process as an explanatory basis for the etiology of autism spectrum disorder and, consequently, to be able to establish major empirical predictions about the presence of this disorder associated cluster.

A total of 116 participants with autism have collaborated in this study, elaborated from the factorial dimensional reduction of the independent variables, which have been factorially reduced to two factors: "Disease" and "GENETIC", as explanatory dimensions of the etiology of the autistic disorder formed by the variable "level" (levels 1-2-3) (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013) of the disorder. The study forms the analysis of groupings of belonging of the cases, according to the parametric statistical technique of hierarchical clustering through the Ward method, contrasted by means of an ordinal regression analysis of the logit link in order to elaborate the grouping of cases according to their particularities, which are corroborated by an ordinal regression analysis according to the logit calculation for the basic conceptual variable that configures the current neuropsychological development of autism, in relation to the capacity of elaboration of neural networks or nodes during information processing, which has been operationalized with the name of "nodes". Finally, comparative t-studies of the findings in both factors in relation to the variables sex and age of the participants were carried out.

The results concluded with the configuration of three differential clusters, which have been corroborated by a one-factor ANOVA analysis, which has indicated significant critical levels for the two factors (sig: .00). The contrasts of the ordinal regression analysis corroborated the goodness of fit of the factors as explanatory components of the etiology of the disorder (sig: .00), which have been duly corroborated by the ordinal regression analysis for these same etiological factors and the consequent statistical process of neural networks by means of the multilayer perceptron procedure. Likewise, no significant differential comparative levels have been observed in the predictive results referring to the levels of the explanatory variance of the etiology of the diagnosis of autism as a function of the variables sex and age.


Monday, 8 July 2024

BOOK CHAPTER: AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER SCALE-R

 

CONFERENCE PROCEDINGS

CIVINEDU 2024

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH:
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER SCALE- REVISED 
(pp. 10-16. July, 2024). 

By Manuel Ojea Rúa

ISBN 978-84-126060-2-7. 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.58909/adc24377766



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Saturday, 15 June 2024

ANÁLISIS PREDICTIVO DE LOS COMPONENTES PRINCIPALES QUE CONFIGURAN EL TRASTORNO DEL ESPECTRO AUTISTA

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS THAT CONFIGURE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER

Por Manuel Ojea Rúa

European Journal of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, 2(3), 779-791. 2024



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Abstract

At currently, developments regarding to autism spectrum disorder have enabled its diagnostic group to be defined as a multilateral neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by peculiarities in the procedural functioning of perceptual-cognitive parameters, derived from a characteristic connexional form in the pathway of interconnection between intrinsic information and contextual stimuli. In this characteristic process, neuronal networks are involved a fundamental processing task for working memory to be able to perform the set of executive functions with a certain degree of stability, which is severely limited in people diagnosed with this disorder. In this study, the reports of 403 participants diagnosed with the disorder were analysed with the following basic goals: 1) to analyse the relationship between relational deficits and the elaboration of semantic content, 2) to analyse the etiological attribution of the GABAergic pathway responsible for the limitations in these connections and, consequently, 3) to conclude the main predictive-explanatory level of this disorder. The data have been found by means of different statistical tests, both initial correlational tests, statistical calculation processes, univariate one-factor ANOVA tests and final consequential ordinal multinomial logit regression tests. Data found allow us to delimit that the regression equation of the model fitting information explaining the disorder shows a final logit model chi-square: 217.23, with a significant associated critical level (sig: .00), which are complemented by the significantly positive Pearson and Deviance data significantly related to the logit level (sig: .00), which confirms the importance of the predictive-explicative level of the neuronal and semantic variables derived from the GABAergic limitations in order to be able to be converted into the main propositional components of autism as a highly related neurocognitive systemic process. 



Localización oficial del Instituto de Investivación Científica en Autismo (G-44568509).

NUEVA TESIS DOCTORAL: GENÉTICA Y AUTISMO

Hoy, 06/02/2026, se ha presentado en la Facultad de Trabajo y Educación Soal de la Escuela Internacional del Doctorado EIDO de la Univeridad...