三、發表論文摘要

This study aims to explore the ability of Mandarin-speaking children with ASD to attribute psychological states to story characters in narratives. We provided an analysis of narratives from 16 children with high-functioning ASD and 16 typically developing children matched on gender, linguistic and cognitive abilities. The narrative data were based on a wordless picture book Frog, where are you? Participants’ performance on attribution of psychological states was assessed by focusing on lexical terms referring to emotions, desires, and cognitive states. The ‘deer episode’ of the frog story was particularly chosen for further analysis for it involves contrast between reality and appearance and the related

misrepresentation. Given the putative impairments in theory of mind in children with ASD, we hypothesized that, compared with the typical controls, children with ASD would be less likely to talk about psychological states and would be less likely to encode misrepresentation for the deer episode.

Our data suggest that, when matched on both linguistic and cognitive abilities, the participants exhibited no significant group differences regarding basic narrative measures.

Contrary to the hypothesis, however, there are no significant group differences in the use of mental terms for emotions and desires, while children with ASD were more likely to encode cognitive states. The majority of children failed to appropriately interpret the deer episode by encoding misconception. Nevertheless, qualitative analysis indicates that typical children provided more elaboration for this episode. The findings are discussed in relation to linguistic and cognitive factors in narrative construction.

國科會補助專題研究計畫出席國際學術會議心得報告

日期：102 年 10 月

一、參加會議經過與心得

近年來，自閉症患者心智理論能力缺陷之研究蔚為顯學，而歐洲不僅為兒童心智理論能力發展研究之濫觴，許多重要的兒童發展研究中心亦位在歐洲。兒童心智理論能力研究的重要人物 J. Piaget 與瑞士洛桑大學(University of Lausanne)就有很深的淵源。本次 European Conference on Developmental Psychology (ECDP)會議即由洛桑大學傾全力籌畫，

其內涵規劃上對兒童語言及認知發展障礙之研究，著墨甚多，並有European Association

for Developmental Psychology、Institute of Psychology、Brain Mind Institute of the Federal Institute of Technology 等知名研究單位共同推動，實為學術界一大盛事。

每兩年舉辦一次的ECDP 已邁入第 16 屆，該會為發展心理學(developmental psychology)領域重量級的國際學術會議。ECDP 秉持跨領域合作之精神，推動發展心理學研究領域的國際交流，其主要範疇涵蓋：child development, perceptive and cognitive development, language development, education, neuro-plasticity, developmental

psychopathology, methods in developmental psychology 等。今年該會除論文發表、round table discussions 及工作坊外，亦精心規劃數場專題討論會(symposia) ，探討

developmental sciences各個面向之重要議題，並邀請歐洲、美國、澳洲、日本等地國際知名學者發表專題演說。我們由上述工作坊、專題討論會以及專家演說中領受許多啟發，

累積了更多研究能量。

本屆 ECDP 會議聚焦在臨床研究、發展科學(developmental sciences)與大腦認知等主計畫編號

NSC 101－2410－H－004－162

計畫名稱漢語高功能自閉症兒童的敘事能力：敘事表現與心智理論能力之關係

出國人

員姓名薩文蕙

服務機構及職

稱

政大英文系副教授

會議時間 102 年 9 月 3 日至

102 年 9 月 7 日會議地點

瑞士

會議名稱 The 16th European Conference on Developmental Psychology (ECDP)

發表題目 Mandarin-speaking Autistic Children’s References to Psychological States:

An Investigation Based on the Frog Story

題，會議的主旨與本研究議題十分契合。本團隊針對自閉症兒童心智理論能力與敘事表現的研究是為會議核心議題，我們藉由語言學與發展心理學跨領域合作的方式，並以漢語自閉症兒童的敘事語料為據的分析，得到許多迴響。透過此次會議發表，一方面我們就研究心得與來自各地的專家交流討論，對研究結果的詮釋助益匪淺，對後續研究的進行亦有重大啟發；更重要的是，得以在許多知名發展心理學家聚集的會議中發表研究成果，讓國際學界瞭解我國於此方面研究的進展與投入。

二、建議

ECDP 此一跨領域的研討會，讓與會人士受到多方面的啟迪，使相關學門的研究人員有許多交流的機會，希望國內日後多舉辦類似的跨領域研討會，帶動相關領域的整體發展。