Buitelaar J K, van Engeland H, de Kogel K H, de Vries H, van Hooff J A
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Utrecht University Hospital, The Netherlands.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1991 Sep;32(6):995-1015. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1991.tb01925.x.
Social and task-oriented behaviours of autistic children were compared to those of individually age- and IQ-matched non-autistic retarded controls. Autistic children showed deficits in visual reciprocity, in indicating joint attention and referential head gestures, and in the integration of gaze and gestures when reacting to tasks. The findings confirmed the notion of social and pragmatic communicative deficits in autism. The implications of these findings for theories of social behaviour in autism (avoidance, facial perception, theory of mind) are discussed.
将自闭症儿童的社交和任务导向行为与年龄和智商相匹配的非自闭症智障对照组儿童的行为进行了比较。自闭症儿童在视觉互动、指示共同注意力和指示性头部手势以及对任务做出反应时目光与手势的整合方面存在缺陷。这些发现证实了自闭症存在社交和语用交流缺陷的观点。讨论了这些发现对自闭症社交行为理论(回避、面部感知、心理理论)的影响。