The Knowledge And Awareness Of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among School Teachers In Ekiti State

ABSTRACT

The study investigated the Knowledge and Awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorder among

school teachers in Ekiti State. The study is a school based cross-sectional study. A total of 107

teachers were sampled for the study. Knowlecege of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASK-ASD)

was used to assess knowledge while an ordinary awareness questionnarc was used to assess the

teachers awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) . Five hypotheses were tested. 111e

result revealed that there is no significant relationship between Knowledge of ASD and

respondents having relationship with children who have Autism Sjte~trum Disorder (r (105) = -

. l l 3 p>.05). It also revealed that there is a significant relationship between knowledge of ASD

and Prior training on Autism (r(l 07) "· -.266 p