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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Champagne Terrace/Bordeaux (Novotel London West)
10:30 AM
Background:
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often lack the appropriate communication and reciprocal social interaction skills that lay the groundwork for school-based learning of literacy and for later academic and social achievement.
Objectives:
Our focus in this paper is to understand and diminish deficits in reciprocal social interaction and social communication in high-functioning children with ASD using Comic Strip Conversations (CSC). CSC is a conversation between two or more people that incorporates the use of simple drawings. The visual representation can include symbols, drawing and written words.
Methods:
Three boys, who were between 9 and 11 years old, were diagnosed according to the National Society for Autistic Children's criteria (Ritvo & Freeman, 1978) and the DSM IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). All children were verbal and could answer simple questions, generally in three- or four-word phrases. An ABAB research design was used.
Results:
With such intervention, it has attempted to upgrade the conversational abilities through the strengthening of the intrinsic motivation. Through this strategy, it has attempted to hold account of the peculiar cognitive characteristics of these persons and possibility has given to them it to experience a positive communicative loop increasing therefore also the relational life.In particular, to the end of the participation all the subjects introduced an improvement in the following abilities: use of the gestures and the look, structuring of a phrase more articulated (use than functors), starter of one conversation (to attract the attention, to use comments, to ask information), maintenance of one conversation (to recognise comments, to make questions, to answer).
Conclusions:
In conclusion, only through the repetition of interactive experiences (initially “simulated” with “scripts of routine social experiences”, and then with natural social experiences), the persons with autism will have the possibility to learn these abilities.
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often lack the appropriate communication and reciprocal social interaction skills that lay the groundwork for school-based learning of literacy and for later academic and social achievement.
Objectives:
Our focus in this paper is to understand and diminish deficits in reciprocal social interaction and social communication in high-functioning children with ASD using Comic Strip Conversations (CSC). CSC is a conversation between two or more people that incorporates the use of simple drawings. The visual representation can include symbols, drawing and written words.
Methods:
Three boys, who were between 9 and 11 years old, were diagnosed according to the National Society for Autistic Children's criteria (Ritvo & Freeman, 1978) and the DSM IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). All children were verbal and could answer simple questions, generally in three- or four-word phrases. An ABAB research design was used.
Results:
With such intervention, it has attempted to upgrade the conversational abilities through the strengthening of the intrinsic motivation. Through this strategy, it has attempted to hold account of the peculiar cognitive characteristics of these persons and possibility has given to them it to experience a positive communicative loop increasing therefore also the relational life.In particular, to the end of the participation all the subjects introduced an improvement in the following abilities: use of the gestures and the look, structuring of a phrase more articulated (use than functors), starter of one conversation (to attract the attention, to use comments, to ask information), maintenance of one conversation (to recognise comments, to make questions, to answer).
Conclusions:
In conclusion, only through the repetition of interactive experiences (initially “simulated” with “scripts of routine social experiences”, and then with natural social experiences), the persons with autism will have the possibility to learn these abilities.