Treating People as Objects, Agents, or “Subjects”: How Young Children With and Without Autism Make Requests
- 1 November 1995
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Vol. 36 (8), 1383-1398
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1995.tb01670.x
Abstract
A procedure previously used to investigate imperative communication in non-human primates was applied to young children, some of whom had autism. The goal was to examine closely how requests are made in a problem-solving situation. Each child's spontaneous strategies to obtain an out-of-reach object were analyzed in terms of the ways in which he or she used the adult who was present. Results showed that fewer children with autism used a strategy of treating the person as a "subject", and that more children with autism used object-centred strategies.Keywords
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