Autism is a kind of pervasive developmental disorder.In recent years,the number of children with autism has increased year by year.Relevant studies have found that reading picture books plays a certain role in improving the symptoms of autistic children.Integrating"healing"elements into picture books can often arouse readers’resonance and empathy,relieve inner pain and soothe emotions,and thus bring warmth to readers and audiences[1].It can not only arouse the active learning desire of the sick children,improve their cognition,but also achieve emotional healing through the guidance of the story content and color stimulation properties,forming a kind of art therapy in fact.Based on child psychology,this paper sorts out and compares the relevant theories,summarizes the behavioral reading characteristics of ordinary children and autistic children,gives full play to the visual advantages of autistic children,and analyzes and summarizes the elements of autistic children’s healing picture books through discussion and research on the design of autistic children’s healing picture books.This paper analyzes text creation and modeling creation,studies language features,text design,image design,color elements,typography and interactive elements,and tries to compare theory with experimental results to create a healing picture book suitable for autistic children.So that autistic children not only have emotional resonance from reading training,but also can actively achieve the positive visual guidance and healing effect,so as to improve the physical and mental development of children with autism.Through this study,the author calls on more professionals and general audiences to pay attention to autistic children,and tries to broaden the field of picture book creation.This paper explores the use of the experimental method,through the case tracking study of 3 autistic children for nearly a year,through observation and test,and then verify the healing function of the healing picture book on autistic children,and hopes to make contributions to the research in this field with more similar achievements. |