Nonverbal deficit to understand others’minds in high function autism spectrum disorders

• 作 者: YEH Zai-Ting LIU Shen-Ing WANG Peng-Chin
• 机 构: Department of Clinical Psychology,Fu Jen Catholic University,Department of Psychiatry,Mackay Memoria
• 出 处: Chinese Science Bulletin
• 发表日期: 2010年07期
• 关键词: autism deficit verbal children distinguish trained impaired false possibility co

Deficits in understanding others’minds,evident in most individuals with autism spectrum disorders,have been suggested as a core deficit of autism.However,nonverbal ability has gone untested because most theory of mind measurement has involved verbal materials such as reading tasks.This raises the possibility that children with high function autism spectrum disorder would distinguish verbal and nonverbal component deficits.Thirty-two participants diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder by a trained psychiatrist and 34 matched controls were recruited for this study.The assessment included verbal and non-verbal materials tasks.The result showed that nonverbal ability of theory of mind is impaired in the individuals with autism spectrum disorders.

Deficits in understanding others’minds, evident in most individuals with autism spectrum disorders, have been suggested as a core deficit of autism. However, nonverbal ability has gone untested because most theory of mind measurement has involved verbal materials such as reading tasks. This raises the possibility that children with high function autism spectrum disorder would distinguish verbal and nonverbal component deficits. Thirty-two participants diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder by a trained psychiatrist and 34 matched controls were recruited for this study. assessment approved verbal and non-verbal materials tasks. result showed that nonverbal ability of theory of mind is impaired in the individuals with autism spectrum disorders.