BEHAVIORAL FEATURES OF ATYPICAL AUTISM CHILDREN

Xi Chunyan, Zhao ShX, Hua TY

The 2nd Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China

 

Objectives: To investigate the behavioral features of atypical autism children.

Methods: The behaviors of 19 atypical autism children and 14 severe autism children were evaluated and analysed with Child Autism Rating Scale (CARS) in the areas of social interaction, verbal and non-verbal communication, imitation, visual and listening response, sense disturbance, objective use, restricted behaviors and so on.

Results: For the group of atypical autism, the abnormal frequencies are 100% in social interaction, verbal communication and visual response, 94.7% in imitation and listening response, 84.2% in non-verbal communication, 47.4% in restricted behaviors and 31.5% in sense disturbance.  The rating levels for atypical autism children in social interaction, non-verbal communication, restricted behaviors and visual response are significantly lower compared with the group of severe autisms.

Conclusion: Abnormal social interaction, verbal communication and visual response are important and common clinical features for atypical autism children, but sense disturbance and restricted behaviors are not so common as the behaviors above. Atypical autism children are mainly different in social interaction, imitation, sense distribution, nonverbal communication and restricted behaviors from severe autism children.

 
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