The purpose of this study was to investigate the comprehension ability of indirect speech acts between the High-Functioning Autism(HFA) and typically developing children(TD) according to the presence of facial expression. For this purpose, 16 HFA chil...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the comprehension ability of indirect speech acts between the High-Functioning Autism(HFA) and typically developing children(TD) according to the presence of facial expression. For this purpose, 16 HFA children aged from 5 to 9 years old participated and subjects and 16 TD children.
The experimental task consisted of indirect speech acts comprehension task with/without facial expressions. Pictures, verbal situation context story and indirect speech acts were provided to children and they asked to answer in two type of questions.
The questions of this study were as follows; (1) Dose the comprehension ability of indirect speech acts comprehension task according to the presence of facial expression show a significant difference among two groups? (2) What are the error types of indirect speech acts comprehension task according to the presence of facial expression in groups? Two-way mixed analysis of variance(ANOVA) was used to investigate the group differences. Also, the error types of indirect speech acts comprehension task in groups were analyzed by the frequency and percentage.
The results were as follows. (1) HFA group showed lower percentage of indirect speech acts comprehension task than TD group. (2) both groups showed significantly higher performance of indirect speech acts comprehension task with facial expression than without facial expression. However, no significant correlation was found between group and the presence of facial expression.
These results imply that HFA children have a weak comprehension ability of indirect speech acts. Also, they have difficulties using facial expression cues to understand situation context. However, in indirect speech acts comprehension task with facial express, HFA showed higher comprehension ability than without facial expression. Therefore, using facial expression cues in indirect speech acts is important to speech-language therapy for HFA children.
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