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

本研究通过对典型发展儿童和孤独症儿童理解非言语交际信息的调查，为孤独症儿童的发展制定方案。结果是：1）典型的发展中儿童在婴儿期发展了他们知道不同类型的指向的不同含义的能力。2)一般来说，发育中的儿童会整合来自眼睛注视和指向的信息来解释他人的词义。孤独症儿童在使用指向信息解释代词时存在困难; 4）在整合注视信息和指向信息时存在困难。根据这些结果，再加上我们对自闭症儿童及其照顾者的干预结果，我们获得了制定自闭症儿童干预计划的有用信息。

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.