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Tahmineh Mousavi

Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Title: Capabilities-based interventions for autism spectrum disorders

Biography

Biography: Tahmineh Mousavi

Abstract

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is one of the most common disabilities that increased over the last two decades. The prevalence of ASD is between 1% and 2% for all racial groups. Different types of interventions for individuals with ASD were recommended from medical interventions to applied behavioral analysis, developmental and family-based interventions. The interventions have different goals, including improving communication and social skills to training to support family members. Individuals with ASD are more likely to experience failure in their basic capabilities, as described by Nussbaum (2006), including living a normal life expectancy, being healthy, being able to move freely from place to place, being able to experience self-expressive and creative activities, having attachments to people and things, being able to plan for one’s life, being able to show concern for other human beings and engage in various forms of social life, being able to live with concern for and in relation to the world of nature, being able to laugh, play, to enjoy recreational activities, being to participate effectively in political choices that govern their lives; having the right to political participation and having the right to seek employment on an equal basis with others. Individuals with ASD have needs in the areas covered by all the central human functional capabilities. The purpose of this study is to develop a conceptual model of capabilities-based interventions for individuals with ASD.

 

 

Recent Publications

 

  1. Mousavi T (2017) Central human functional capabilities of children with autism spectrum disorders: a qualitative research. Mental Health in Family Medicine 13:495-501.

 

  1. Nussbaum M (2000) Women and human development: the capabilities approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN-13 978-0-511-33743-7.

 

  1. Martha C Nussbaum (2003) Capabilities as fundamental entitlements: Sen and Social Justice. Feminist Economics 9(2-3):33-59.

 

  1. Martha C Nussbaum (2006) Frontiers of justice: disability, nationality, species membership. Cambridge. MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674024106.