자폐성 장애인의 감정인식과 자발적 감정표출의 지원

Abstract

The person with autistic disorder have a difficulty recognizing emotions in the facial xpression, and expressing their own emotional feelings. This is a case study supporting the recognition of facial expression and a spontaneous expression of emotion as a individual support method to improve the communications skills and socialization problems of the indivisuals with autism who is approaching to normal socialization after they went through the secondary educational curriculums. This study was designed with two interventions as following ; Intervention (1) is to study stimulations between letters, voices, illustrations, photos, videos for the four emotions such as So-so, Pleasant, Sad, Angry as a conditionally categorized subject. Intervention (2) is to support reporting of spontaneous expression of emotion by introducing a support chart of the emotional expression. As a result of the interventions, it was found out that the equivalent relationship between the stimulations of the four emotions was formed for the autistic person who didn t show his spontaneous expression, and he have expressed his emotions spontaneously by choosing illustrated stimulations during reporting activity. The reporting activity, which was expressed disgustedly, has been changed to the spontaneous expression after a support chart of the emotional expression was introduced, and the emotions was expressed in some specialized ways in accordance with the activity substances. Throughout this study, it was examined that the essential factors to support the emotional recognition and emotional expression for the person with autism are (1) the recognition of facial expression by equivalent relationship between stimulations and (2) assistant communication instrument used with nonvocal language method and choosing reaction by letters, illustrations.