Sanefuji Wakako, Yamashita Hiroshi, Ohgami Hidehiro
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka.
Infant Ment Health J. 2009 Mar;30(2):145-157. doi: 10.1002/imhj.20208.
Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have impaired social interaction right from early development. Previous studies (Dawson & Adams, 1984; Tiegerman & Primavera, 1981, 1984) have suggested that imitating children with ASD is effective in facilitating their social behaviors. The present case report, through a 6-month intervention, investigated how a home-based intervention of helping a mother imitate her 21-month-old child with ASD impacted the child's development of social communication outside the experimental settings. Our results show that the mother's imitation of her child might be associated with the development of nonverbal joint attention skills. Positive changes in the mother's emotion towards her child and the mother-child interaction also were noted and represent other important effects of parental involvement in therapeutic interventions for children with ASD.
患有自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的儿童从早期发育起就存在社交互动障碍。先前的研究（道森和亚当斯，1984年；蒂格曼和普里马维拉，1981年、1984年）表明，模仿患有ASD的儿童对促进他们的社交行为是有效的。本病例报告通过为期6个月的干预，研究了以家庭为基础、帮助一位母亲模仿她21个月大患有ASD的孩子的干预措施如何影响孩子在实验环境之外的社交沟通发展。我们的结果表明，母亲对孩子的模仿可能与非言语共同注意技能的发展有关。还注意到母亲对孩子的情感以及母子互动方面的积极变化，这代表了父母参与对患有ASD儿童的治疗性干预的其他重要影响。
