Varanda Cristina de Andrade, Fernandes Fernanda Dreux Miranda
Programa de Pós-graduação (Doutorado) em Ciências da Reabilitação Humana da Faculdade de Medicina,Universidade de São Paulo – USP – São Paulo (SP), Brasil.
J Soc Bras Fonoaudiol. 2011;23(2):142-51. doi: 10.1590/s2179-64912011000200011.
To evaluate syntactic awareness, central coherence, non-verbal intelligence, social and communication development, interests and behavior of children with autistic spectrum disorders and to examine their probable correlations.
Participants were ten subjects diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder, eight male and two female, with ages between 4 years e 9 months and 13 years and 4 months (mean age 9 years), who used oral language for communication. The following tests were used: Syntactic Awareness Test - Adapted (Prova de Consciência Sintática - Adaptada), Computerized jigsaw puzzles with picture and background and only with background; and Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices - Special Scale. Subjects' parents answered the protocol Autism Diagnostic Interview - Revised (ADI-R).
The children with autism presented syntactic awareness performance similar to that of 6-year-old children with typical development. Sixty percent of the subjects showed non-verbal intelligence at a superior or average level. There were no correlations between the performances in syntactic awareness and the other tested variables.
There was no relationship between the performance in syntactic awareness and the results related to central coherence, non-verbal intelligence and social interaction deficits, difficulties in communication and restrict patterns interests of subjects with autism. The results suggest that these children seem to follow the development pattern of typically developing 6-year-old children in syntactic awareness abilities, only delayed.
评估自闭症谱系障碍儿童的句法意识、中心连贯性、非言语智力、社交和沟通发展、兴趣及行为，并检验它们之间可能存在的相关性。
参与者为10名被诊断患有自闭症谱系障碍的儿童，8名男性，2名女性，年龄在4岁9个月至13岁4个月之间（平均年龄9岁），他们使用口语进行交流。采用了以下测试：改编后的句法意识测试（Syntactic Awareness Test - Adapted）、带有图片和背景以及仅带有背景的电脑拼图游戏；以及瑞文彩色渐进矩阵测验 - 特殊量表。受试者的父母回答了修订版自闭症诊断访谈问卷（Autism Diagnostic Interview - Revised，ADI-R）。
自闭症儿童的句法意识表现与发育正常的6岁儿童相似。60%的受试者非言语智力处于较高或平均水平。句法意识表现与其他测试变量之间没有相关性。
自闭症受试者的句法意识表现与中心连贯性、非言语智力及社交互动缺陷、沟通困难和兴趣受限模式等结果之间没有关联。结果表明，这些儿童在句法意识能力方面似乎遵循发育正常的6岁儿童的发展模式，只是有所延迟。
