TITLE:
Social Functions in Autistic Children and Interaction with/through Object: A Brief Report
AUTHORS:
Giulia Savarese, Federico Manzi, Antonio Iannaccone
KEYWORDS:
Autistic Children, Objects, Social Functions
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.8 No.8,
June
12,
2017
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.