Curcio F, Piserchia E A
J Autism Child Schizophr. 1978 Jun;8(2):181-9. doi: 10.1007/BF01537867.
Previous research suggests that verbal deficits among psychotic children may be paralleled by deficits in nonverbal pantomime. However, certain questions such as the level of pantomime exhibited by psychotic children, its susceptibility to modification, and its relation to other symbolic functions have not been systematically examined. To investigate these issues, 24 psychotic children were required to represent absent objects (e.g., toothbrush) via pantomime after receiving verbal instructions or instructions accompanied by a model demonstrating the pantomime. Also, measures of receptive and expressive speech, human figure drawings, and pretend play were obtained. The findings indicated very few complete failures in pantomime; higher pantomime performance when a model was provided although even in this condition most responses consisted of low-level substitutions of a body part in place of the absent object; and significant relationships between pantomime and measures of receptive vocabulary, echolalia, drawing, and play. The relationship of the findings to symbolic functioning in normal children and their relevance to understanding symbolic deficits in psychotic children are discussed.
先前的研究表明，患有精神病的儿童在言语方面的缺陷可能与非言语哑剧表演方面的缺陷相似。然而，诸如患有精神病的儿童所表现出的哑剧表演水平、其对改变的敏感性以及它与其他象征功能的关系等某些问题尚未得到系统研究。为了调查这些问题，24名患有精神病的儿童在接受言语指令或伴有演示哑剧表演的模型的指令后，被要求通过哑剧表演来表现缺失的物品（如牙刷）。此外，还获得了接受性和表达性言语、人物绘画以及假装游戏的测量结果。研究结果表明，哑剧表演中极少出现完全失败的情况；提供模型时哑剧表演表现更好，不过即使在这种情况下，大多数反应也只是用身体部位简单替代缺失物品；并且哑剧表演与接受性词汇、模仿言语、绘画和游戏的测量结果之间存在显著关系。文中讨论了这些研究结果与正常儿童象征功能的关系以及它们对于理解患有精神病的儿童的象征缺陷的相关性。
