Kauschke Christina, van der Beek Bettina, Kamp-Becker Inge
Department of German Linguistics, Clinical Linguistics, University of Marburg, Wilhelm-Röpke-Straße 6A, 35032, Marburg, Germany.
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg, 35032, Marburg, Germany.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2016 Mar;46(3):840-52. doi: 10.1007/s10803-015-2620-5.
Since gender differences in the symptomatology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are not well understood, the current study examines the communicative skills of males and females with ASD. Narrative competence and internal state language (ISL) was investigated using narrations elicited by a wordless picture book. 11 girls and 11 boys with ASD and 11 typically developing girls were individually matched. Although results demonstrate largely comparable narrative skills across groups, the groups differed with respect to the size and use of ISL: Girls with ASD verbalized and motivated internal states more often than boys, and both groups with ASD fell behind typically developing children in production of affective words. Implications for the clinical presentation of males and females with ASD are discussed.
由于对自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）症状学中的性别差异了解不足，本研究考察了患有ASD的男性和女性的沟通技巧。使用一本无字图画书引发的叙述来研究叙事能力和内心状态语言（ISL）。对11名患有ASD的女孩、11名患有ASD的男孩和11名发育正常的女孩进行了个体匹配。尽管结果表明各群体的叙事技巧在很大程度上具有可比性，但在ISL的数量和使用方面各群体存在差异：患有ASD的女孩比男孩更频繁地表达和激发内心状态，并且两个患有ASD的群体在情感词汇的表达上落后于发育正常的儿童。文中讨论了对患有ASD的男性和女性临床表现的影响。
