Communicative behavior of ASD and TD children in Japanand China compared.

众所周知，患有自闭症谱系障碍的儿童由于神经缺陷而有沟通障碍，但最近的研究表明，他们的行为存在文化差异，这表明环境对他们的行为有影响。在这项研究中，自闭症谱系障碍儿童与日本和中国这两个国家的典型发育中儿童进行了比较。共有308名儿童参加了母婴故事讲述和视觉信息处理任务，结果表明，与一般发育儿童相比，两国ASD儿童在理解人的内心状态和处理视觉信息方面都存在困难。然而，在两个国家，母亲们的行为方式不同。虽然中国患有自闭症的母亲的行为与一般发育中的孩子的母亲相似，但日本母亲对待自闭症的方式不同，允许更多的自由。这些养育行为的差异可能会导致文化差异。

Children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) are known to have communicative difficulties due to neurological deficits, but recent studies show cultural differences in their behavior, suggesting environmental influences over their behavior.In this study, ASD are compared with typically developing children in two countries, Japan and China. Total of 308 children participated in mother-child story telling session and visual information process task using eye tracker.Results show that ASD in both countries had difficulties in understanding the inner state of people and also had difficulty processing the visual information compared to typically developing children. Mothers, however, behaved differently in two countries. While Chinese mothers of ASD behaved similarly to mothers of typically developing children, Japanese mothers treated ASD differently, allowing more freedom. These differences in rearing behavior may lead to cultural differences.