Engaging with the Self: Mirror Behaviour in Autism, Down Syndrome and Typical Development

Autor/inn/en	Reddy, Vasudevi; Williams, Emma; Costantini, Cristina; Lan, Britta
Titel	Engaging with the Self: Mirror Behaviour in Autism, Down Syndrome and Typical Development
Quelle	In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 14 (2010) 5, S.531-546 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-3613
DOI	10.1177/1362361310370397
Schlagwörter	Autism; Down Syndrome; Preschool Children; Comparative Analysis; Social Development; Affective Behavior; Cognitive Ability; Imitation; Child Development; Self Concept; Toddlers; Recognition (Psychology); Developmental Psychology; MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory; Bayley Scales of Infant Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; 'Downs Syndrome; Down''s Syndrome'; Down-Syndrom; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Soziale Entwicklung; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Denkfähigkeit; Kindesentwicklung; Selbstkonzept; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Recognition; Wiedererkennen; Entwicklungspsychologie
Abstract	Children with autism achieve mirror self-recognition appropriate to developmental age, but are nonetheless reported to have problems in other aspects of a sense of self. We observed behaviour in the mirror in 12 pre-school children with autism, 13 pre-school children with Down syndrome (DS) and 13 typically developing (TD) toddlers. Reliable differences in reflecting actions, social relatedness and positive affect towards themselves, and an absence of coy smiles differentiated the children with autism from the others. The children with DS showed the highest interest in their own faces. These differences were largely independent of mirror self-recognition (MSR), broadly supporting arguments for dissociation between interpersonal and conceptual aspects of self. Mirror behaviour may be a subtle but easily elicited measure of the social quality of a sense of self. (Contains 3 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10