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Treating People as Objects, Agents, or “Subjects”: How Young Children With and Without Autism Make Requests
Author(s) -
Phillips Wendy,
Gómez Juan Carlos,
BaronCohen Simon,
Laá Vicky,
Rivière Angel
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1995.tb01670.x
Subject(s) - autism , psychology , object (grammar) , developmental psychology , developmental disorder , computer science , artificial intelligence
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.