Young Nicole, Hudry Kristelle, Trembath David, Vivanti Giacomo
Nicole Young and Kristelle Hudry, Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia;
David Trembath, Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; and.
Am J Intellect Dev Disabil. 2016 Jan;121(1):65-73. doi: 10.1352/1944-7558-121.1.65.
Information-seeking behaviours occur when children look to adults in order to gain further information about a novel stimulus/situation. The current study investigated information seeking in children with developmental delays (DD) and those with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) during a simulated teaching situation. Twenty preschool-aged children with ASD and 15 children with DD were exposed to a series of videos where a teacher provided novel instructions and demonstrated novel actions. We found that children with DD, but not those with ASD, demonstrated information-seeking behaviours in response to instructions that exceeded their level of understanding. This suggests that children with DD may use information-seeking behaviours to compensate for their cognitive and language difficulties when novel actions are being taught, while the same is not true for children with ASD.
当儿童向成人寻求信息以获取有关新刺激/情境的更多信息时，就会出现信息寻求行为。当前的研究调查了发育迟缓（DD）儿童和自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）儿童在模拟教学情境中的信息寻求情况。20名学龄前自闭症儿童和15名发育迟缓儿童观看了一系列视频，视频中一位教师给出了新的指令并演示了新的动作。我们发现，发育迟缓儿童而非自闭症儿童，会针对超出其理解水平的指令表现出信息寻求行为。这表明，在教授新动作时，发育迟缓儿童可能会利用信息寻求行为来弥补其认知和语言方面的困难，而自闭症儿童则不然。
