Table 1 reveals that most of the participants (P2, P3, P4, P5, P7, P8, P9, P10, P11 and P12) had similar kind of knowledge about the therapy of learning speaking. Participants (P10 and P11) are also said that the speech and language therapist works to understand with children. P-1 was not response and P-6 was not known about speech and language therapy. But, P-9 state that the therapist learns in her children in the pronunciation with speaking. Participants -8 stated that therapy means learning the object.

Table 1

Code	Therapy of learning object	Therapy of learning speaking	No response	Not known	The therapist learn in pronunciation	The therapist works in understand
P1			ü
P2		ü
P3		ü
P4		ü
P5		ü
P6				ü
P7		ü
P8	ü	ü
P9		ü			ü
P10		ü				ü
P11		ü				ü
P12		ü

[Note: Participant = P And Number of participant P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, P7, P8, P9, P10, P11 and P12]

Table 2 indicates that maximum participants (P1, P7, P9, P10 and P11) mentioned that the therapy which is given in a group of 8 – 10 children and participants (P4, P5, P6, P7 and P12) also responds that the therapy which have many children with altogether. The minimum participants (P2 and P5) said that the therapy which given work together. Participants (P2 and P12) mentioned that the therapy which works together, at last P-3 and P-8 does not a response to autism group therapy.

Table 3 shows that six participants (P1, P2, P5, P7, P11 and P 12) mentioned: parents were a perception about group therapy previously. Another six participants (P4, P5, P6, P7 P9 and P11) mentioned that the therapist was informing the children mothers previously. Six Participants (P3, P4, P6, P8, P9 and P10) was also mentioned that parents were not the previous perception about autism group therapy.

Table 4 reveals that maximum participants (P1, P3, P4, P5, P6, P8, P10, P11 and P12) said that the therapy which given by one therapist is called individual therapy. But some participants (P2, P7 and P9) do not response about individual therapy in those questions.

Table 5 states that maximum participants (P1, P2, P3, P4, P9, P10, and P11) mentioned that they gave in their child’s both individual and group therapy. The minimum participants (P5, P6, P7 and P8) mentioned that they gave their children in individual therapy and P-12 gives in group therapy.

On the Table 6 shows that eight participants (P2, P5, P7, P8, P10, P11, and P12) said that at first therapist learned social integration for introducing with all children. On the other side, seven participants (P1, P2, P3, P9, P10, P11, and P12) said that the therapist is told rhythms of group therapy for sound. Maximum 10 participants (P1, P2, P3, P5, and P7-P12) have also agreed to use music for increasing attention for their child and they are motivated those group therapy.

Table 7 shows that seven participants (P2-P4, P7, P8, P11, and P12) are also agreed about the functional play where children play one to another in children. One participants (P11) mentioned that the therapist learning in object introduces for knowing in different types of object, four participants (P4, P6, P7, P9) also mentioned that their children learned that body parts point but only one participant (P4) said that colors (e.g: red, blue, green) introducing learned.

Table 6

Code	Social Interaction	Preverbal Language Therapy
		Use music for increase attention	Sharing	Eye Contact	Rhymes
P1		ü			ü
P2	ü	ü			ü
P3		ü			ü
P4
P5	ü	ü
P6
P7	ü	ü	ü
P8	ü	ü
P9	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
P10	ü	ü			ü
P11	ü	ü		ü	ü
P12	ü	ü	ü		ü

Note: Participant = P And Number of participant P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, P7, P8, P9, P10, P11 and P12]

List of the Table 8 finds that the maximum participants (P1, P2, P4, P5, P6, P10, P11 and P12) indicated as few improvements after taking autism group therapy. On the other hand, five participants (P1, P2, P3, P8 and P9) expressed as many improved in autism group therapy. But one participant said that do not improve the child in group therapy.

Table 8

Code	Many improvement	Few improvement	No improvement
P1	ü	ü
P2	ü	ü
P3	ü
P4		ü
P5		ü
P6		ü
P7			ü
P8	ü
P9	ü
P10		ü
P11		ü
P12		ü

Note: Participant = P And Number of participant P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, P7, P8, P9, P10, P11 and P12]

Table 9 reveals that the maximum participants (P1, P2, P3, P4, P6, P8, P9, P10 and P11) did not face to give group therapy to their children. The minimum participants (P8 and P12) said that “everything is clear to give group therapy to their children in speech and language therapist.” But Participant P-7 said that she faced some problem in group therapy because the child was very excited in group therapy.

Table 9

Code	Did not face Problem	All is perfect	Limited problem faced
P1	ü
P2	ü
P3	ü
P4	ü
P5	ü
P6	ü
P7			ü
P8	ü	ü
P9	ü
P10	ü
P11	ü
P12		ü

Note: Participant = P And Number of participant P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, P7, P8, P9, P10, P11 and P12]

According to the Table 10, the nine participants mentioned that the expectation of normal life for their children from autism group therapy and the five participant’s expectation of regaining speech from autism group therapy. But the minimum parents (P1 and P6) expectation of complete care of their child from group therapy in speech and language therapy and P-1, P-5 said that the child will better improvement.

Six parents suggested increasing the time. Other five participants noted as appropriate about the autism group therapy. Four participants suggested increasing therapy time to make successful about autism group therapy. The P-3 is also agreed that “if the therapist wants children more improvement, they need to differentiate between improvement and un-improvement child in autism group therapy.

In this study, 10 questions were asked among 12 parents of the children with ASD. Answered question from the participants were 11 categorized. From the 11 categories richer found 10 important themes. Speech and language therapy (SLT) is an effective health profession where the therapeutic practice of speech is used for special needs children. Children are treated by play activities. This health profession has a great role for children with attention, socialization, behavior, communication problem thus they offer this child for therapy by arranging a group.

Autism group therapy is the place where children are guided by the speech therapist. In the response of the meaning of speech therapy, the participant is able to say the common concept. They have a general knowledge of speech and language therapy. Most of the parents think SLT is understood and learning speaks. On the second category, participants experienced about autism group therapy were the therapy where many children attended in a group of 8-10 children. Group therapy involves one or two therapists who lead a group of roughly five to eight parents and child 10. In this category, five participants explained that group therapy stayed more children. On the third category, the theme that came out was previous perception absent about autism group therapy and therapist motivated for giving group therapy to the children’s mother. As autism group therapy is a new concept in Bangladesh, so more mother does not know about group therapy. Although a few mothers came in CRP for individual therapy, they do not know about group therapy. Murray et al. (2009)11 stated that the participants were referred by a therapist for group therapy. The therapist motivated to parents for autism group therapy. The six theme results in this study revealed that the group therapy was given by the therapist were socialization, learn Rhymes, sharing, body parts pointing and pictures introduce. White et al. (2007) 12 reported that social interaction, communication are needed for autism child due to their hyper activeness. According to Charman et.al (1997)8, Children with autism provided group therapy including pretend play, joint attention. Generally, the child likes play activities. So therapists arranged play therapy for increasing children attention. Whalen &Schreibman (2003) 13 stated that Joint attention is effective for the correct response. Play music therapy was also significant between-group differences for joint attention with peers and eye gaze towards persons 14. Some participants mentioned that music therapy is used for increasing attention. Few patients were improved by autism group therapy from speech and language therapy. Antshel et al. (2011) 15 stated that patient improving in social and functioning skills by group intervention. The eight categories results indicated that parents did not face any problem during group therapy Participants-8 reported to facing some problem for group therapy because the child was very excited in group therapy. During treatment effective interaction and families counseling is needed by speech and language therapist. Participants 6 suggested increasing therapy time. One of the participants explained, “I think the time is not sufficient at all, as one hour of treatment is not good for us and need more time to practice.” But Patients have an allocated time of day to get service. On the other hand, 5 of the participants thought the time provided by the SLT professional were sufficient.

It is concluded that group therapy which is provided by speech and language therapists is a wide treatment media for children with autism. Parents’ perception of group therapy is improving their child. However, most of them are motivated by group therapy. At the end of the study, the results show that parents are able to gain knowledge about group therapy for their children. They are able to express the perception of group therapy and thus they provide some recommendations about group therapy which will help both therapist and children who took in autism group therapy.

Acknowledgement: The author would like to thank all participants and also acknowledge the support provided by the Department of Speech and Language Therapy at Bangladesh Health Professional Institute (BHPI), Savar, and the State College of Health Sciences (SCHS), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Conflict of Interest: The authors of the article declare that there are no ethical conflicts regarding this article.

Disclosure of Benefits: No funding was received from any organizations

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