A Case Study On Intervention For The Social Interaction Of A Child With Autism By Integrated Play Groups

One of autism's main disabilities is the lack of social ability. Comprised with autism -s'other disabilities, this disability presents the characteristics of earlier emergence, duration for long time and with the case for life. On the causes of autisms'social interaction disorder, theories of mind account it to that they lack of pretend play and symbolic play. And play is Children's talent and the essence of their life. Games make an important role in the lives of children and the development of theirs'capacities. Integrated play groups is a intervention model by play, and related studies have shown that it has obvious role in promoting autistic children's development of games and language. But, studies have not yet obtained the unanimous conclusion on its'function on autistic social ability, especially on social interaction which is the core of social ability. And in the mainland, related research is still inadequate.This study adopts integrated play group to intervene autistic children's social interaction. The study content and purpose are: (1) the influence of integrated play groups on the number of social interaction, (2) the influence of integrated play groups on the style of social interaction from two points, (3) Summary the generation of guide strategies and game themes of integrated play groups.The subjects are an autism boy who attends ordinary kindergarten. And the research method is the withdrawal of single subject experimental design method and it has baseline period (A), intervention period (B) and tracking period(C). The author used the visual inspection techniques and C statistics of simplified time-series analysis to estimate the data of the study.The results of the study showed that: (1) Integrated play group can promote the development of autism social interaction, (2)Integrated play group can promote the development all styles of autism social interaction, but the affect is different. From high to low, the order of progress rate is maintain interaction>feedback>active interaction; language>action>language and action,(3)individualized concept a guiding role in the design and implementation of integrated play groups. On selecting the theme of the game, it should reference children's interests, preferences and abilities. At the same time, it should ensure that the children have some experience before the preparation.Implication for practice and suggestions of further research are recommended on the basis of the findings of this study.