Moore M, Calvert S
Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2000 Aug;30(4):359-62. doi: 10.1023/a:1005535602064.
This study examined the impact of computers on the vocabulary acquisition of young children with autism. Children's attention, motivation, and learning of words was compared in a behavioral program and an educational software program. The educational software program was designed to parallel the behavioral program, but it added perceptually salient qualities such as interesting sounds and object movement. Children with autism were more attentive, more motivated, and learned more vocabulary in the computer than in the behavioral program. Implications are considered for the development of computer software to teach vocabulary to children who have autism.
本研究考察了计算机对自闭症幼儿词汇习得的影响。在一个行为程序和一个教育软件程序中，对儿童的注意力、动机和单词学习情况进行了比较。教育软件程序旨在与行为程序并行，但增加了一些在感知上较为突出的特性，如有趣的声音和物体移动。与行为程序相比，自闭症儿童在使用计算机时更专注、更有动力，并且学到了更多的词汇。文中还探讨了开发计算机软件以教授自闭症儿童词汇的意义。
