A Case Study Of Improving Autistic Children’s Sociability ThroughRelationship Development Intervention

Social communication disorders is the core symptom of the children with autism,it mainly for eye contact, facial expression,and body posture is unusual, lack of initiative to share joy, interests or activities, cannot be developed peer relations in accordance with their age children, etc. The improvement of social skills can help children with autism change inappropriate behavior of social interaction, improve social communication skills, help autistic children better participate in society.to improve their life quality. So scientific and timely social intervention is very necessary for them.Select three children with autism as the research participant, This study using a single subjects study to intervene social communication ability of the research participant by applying the methods of the relationship development intervention (RDI). The intervention program includes four stages, respectively is ability to concentrate, social referencing, coordination, and accepting change, a total of 24,2 times a week, every 30 minutes a time.1 month before the intervention, after the end of each stage and after the all intervention, respectively do a protest for the target behavior (eye gaze, active interaction and emotional expression). Then using visual analysis and simplified time-series analysis C statistics to analyze the intervention result,and using the method of observation and interview result to analyze the intervention result of the social validity, unite the three participant’s result to analyze the intervention effect and the stability of effect.The results of three participants show that, after intervention eyes gaze ability of social communication ability have been improved significantly and the maintain of the effect is good, the active communication behavior have been improved, but there are individual differences, and emotional expression ability have been improved.