Understanding others' intentions based on nonverbal information in learning word meanings

通过对正常发育儿童和自闭症儿童对非言语交际信息的理解进行调查，为自闭症儿童的发展制定相应的方案。研究结果表明：1)正常发育的儿童在婴儿期就发展了对不同手势不同含义的认知能力。2)典型的发育中的儿童通过眼睛注视和指指来整合信息来解释别人的话的意思。3)自闭症儿童在使用指向信息来解释代词方面存在困难；4)他们在整合眼睛注视和指向信息方面也存在困难。基于这些结果，再加上我们对自闭症儿童及其照顾者的干预，我们获得了一些有用的信息，可以为自闭症儿童制定干预计划。

We investigated typically developing children and autistic children's understanding non-verbal communication information to make programs for autistic children's development. The results were that 1) typically developing children develop their ability to know different meanings of different types of pointing during infancy. 2) typically developing children integrate information from eye gaze and pointing to interpret other people's word meanings. Whereas 3) autistic children had difficulty to use information by pointing to interpret pronouns,, and 4) they also had difficulty to integrate information of eye gaze and pointing. Based on these results in addition to findings we had from our intervention for autistic children and their caregivers, we obtained useful information to make intervention programs for autistic children.