Aggressive behavior in children with autistic spectrum disorder

The bachelor thesis addresses the aggressive behaviour with children with autism spectrum disorder. A relatively wide range of manifestations of aggressive behaviour can be observed within the diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder. The aim of this thesis was to identify these manifestations along with their appearance rate. The thesis is devided into two parts - a theoretical one and an empirical one. The theoretical part deals with the question of problematic behaviour, mainly aggressive bahaviour. It further describes the autism spectrum disorder, classification of diagnoses, historical development of autism and the so called autism triad of impairments. The empirical part of the thesis presents a research aimed at identification of aggressive behaviour manifestations with children with autism spectrum disorder. The data were collected through a questionaire. The participant group was selected as parents of children with autism spectrum disroder