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Social Functions in Autistic Children and Interaction with/through Object: A Brief Report
Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Baronissi (Sa), Italy
Department of Psychology, Research Unit on Theory of Mind, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Institut de Psychologie et Education, Université de Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland
- 1 Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Baronissi (Sa), Italy
- 2 Department of Psychology, Research Unit on Theory of Mind, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
- 3 Institut de Psychologie et Education, Université de Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland
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Abstract
The aim is to analyse the social functions of pointing, of imitation and of joint attention in presence of the object for the autistic children. We have built an ad-hoc observation check-list and we have conducted 43 observations with verbal ASD-affected children aged between 2 years and 6 years. The results show that a better use of the object is correlated to the manifestation of social functions analysed.
KeywordsAutistic ChildrenObjectsSocial Functions
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