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Deficits in the perception of time and processing of changes across time are commonly observed in individuals with autism. This pilot study evaluated the efficacy of the use of the software tool Tic-Tac, designed to make time visual, in three adults with autism and learning difficulties. This research focused on applying the tool in waiting situations where the participants exhibited anxiety-related behaviour. The intervention followed a baseline and intervention (AB) design, and a partial interval recording procedure was used to code the presence of stereotypes, nervous utterances, wandering or other examples of nervousness during the selected waiting situations. The results showed that the use of Tic-Tac resulted in lower levels of anxiety-related behaviour in all three participants, compared to the baseline, suggesting that this software may be an effective technology for helping people with autism with organisation and predictability during waiting periods. The results are discussed in terms of limitations and implications for further study.

RESUMEN:El presente artículo pone de relieve la idea de que la intervención con personas con TEA debe basarse siempre en un planteamiento integral y de futuro. Para ello deben consolidarse redes de servicios que cubran todas las necesidades, derechos, ámbitos y etapas vitales. El objetivo es potenciar el mantenimiento y el desarrollo continuo tanto de las habilidades básicas de la vida diaria como de todas aquellas que faciliten su acceso a los mismos ámbitos que el conjunto de la población, siguiendo el modelo de calidad de vida para asegurar el Proyecto de Vida de estas personas frente a concepciones asistenciales dirigidas solo a evitar el deterioro. Con dicho objetivo a la vista se exponen los principios en los que debe basarse esta intervención, recogiendo además los principales programas de intervención dirigidos a la formación, ocupación y trabajo en la etapa adulta. Palabras clave: Trastorno Autístico (Trastornos del Espectro del Autismo). Calidad de Vida. Evaluación de Necesidades. Planificación Participativa. Relaciones Profesional-Familia. Autism spectrum disorder: Educational intervention and lifelong learningABSTRACT: In this paper, we highlight the idea that the intervention on people with ASD should always be based on a comprehensive and forward-looking approach, consolidating networks of services that cover all the vital needs, rights, areas and the life stages, with the aim to enhance the maintenance and the continued development of both basic skills of daily living and all those skills that help them to access to the same areas as the general population, following the model of quality of life to ensure their Life Project against welfare conceptions addressed to prevent deterioration only. We present the principles on which this intervention must be based, and gather the main intervention programs aimed at training, employment and working in adulthood.

Legislación urbanística y planeamiento urbano en España, 1998-2015. Del despilfarro a la sostenibilidad (Resumen)En los tres primeros lustros del siglo XXI las ciudades españolas han dispuesto de un ingente caudal normativo, extremadamente sensible al cambio político y por lo tanto generador de incertidumbre, que en la práctica ha hecho críptica y laberíntica la gestión urbanística urbana y regional. A todo ello se añade una reiterada sucesión de errores y discrepancias en torno a la interpretación de la Ley 8/2007 de Suelo, y una apropiación política de la ciudad, en cada ciclo regulador, que hace bascular a ésta desde el despilfarro consumista, debido a una clasificación de suelo desproporcionada, propia de los dos primeros lustros del siglo XXI, al despilfarro que representa el abandono sobrevenido de urbanizaciones y promociones de vivienda, desarrolladas al amparo de una ley y un tipo de planeamiento irreflexivo e irresponsable. Palabras clave: Legislación urbanística, Planeamiento urbano, Ciudades, España. The role of land legislation in Spain's urban growth, 1998-2015: Wastefulness vs sustainability. (Abstract)Over the first fifteen years of the 21st century, Spanish cities have had an enormous quantity of legislation, which is extremely sensitive to political change and is thus a generator of uncertainty and which, in practice, has resulted in urban and regional management becoming labyrinthine and cryptic. To this we must also add a succession of repeated errors and discrepancies around the interpretation of the land law 8/2007, and a political appropriation of the city in each regulatory cycle. All of this means that the cities swing between a consumerist waste (due to over-classification, common during the first decade of the 21st century) and the waste inherent in today's cities (due to the neglect of the land and promotions carried out within the auspices of a thoughtless and irresponsible city planning law).