Klein Jennifer L, Macdonald Rebecca F P, Vaillancourt Gretchen, Ahearn William H, Dube William V
New England Center for Children and Northeastern University.
Res Autism Spectr Disord. 2009 Jan 1;3(1):42-49. doi: 10.1016/j.rasd.2008.03.006.
Three young children diagnosed with autism did not reliably locate objects in the environment on the basis of an adult's gaze shifts. A training program designed to teach gaze following used the activation of remote controlled mechanical toys as both prompts and consequences. Over several training sessions, toy activation was progressively delayed following the adult's gaze-shift cues. All of the children eventually came to anticipate the toy activation and locate the target object on the basis of the adult's gaze-shift cue alone. Discrimination of another person's gaze direction is discussed in relation to joint attention deficits in children with autism.
三名被诊断患有自闭症的幼儿无法根据成人的目光转移可靠地在环境中定位物体。一个旨在教授目光跟随的训练项目利用遥控机械玩具的启动作为提示和结果。在几次训练过程中，玩具启动在成人的目光转移提示之后逐渐延迟。所有孩子最终都开始预期玩具启动，并仅根据成人的目光转移提示来定位目标物体。本文讨论了自闭症儿童的共同注意缺陷与对他人目光方向的辨别之间的关系。
