Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9QU, Scotland, UK.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2013 Sep;43(9):2062-81. doi: 10.1007/s10803-012-1753-z.
Nine low-functioning children with profound expressive language impairment and autism were studied in terms of their responsiveness to a computer-based learning program designed to assess syntactic awareness. The children learned to touch words on a screen in the correct sequence in order to see a corresponding animation, such as 'monkey flies'. The game progressed in levels from 2 to 4 word sequences, contingent upon success at each stage. Although performance was highly variable across participants, a detailed review of their learning profiles suggested that no child lacked syntactic awareness and that elementary syntactic control in a non-speech domain was superior to that manifest in their spoken language. The reasons for production failures at the level of speech in children with autism are discussed.
研究了九名表达能力严重受损的自闭症低功能儿童，他们对基于计算机的学习程序的反应能力，该程序旨在评估句法意识。孩子们学习按照正确的顺序触摸屏幕上的单词，以便看到相应的动画，例如“猴子飞”。游戏从 2 到 4 个单词序列进行，取决于每个阶段的成功。尽管参与者的表现差异很大，但对他们的学习情况进行详细审查后发现，没有一个孩子缺乏句法意识，并且在非言语领域的基本句法控制优于他们在口语中的表现。讨论了自闭症儿童在言语层面产生失败的原因。
