• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.3-26
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• 1993

Leo Kanner (1943)의 자폐증에 관한 획기적 논문발표 50주년을 맞아, 자폐증의 개념변천, 분류, 의학, 원인설 및 자폐증의 본질을 문헌고찰을 통해 살펴 보았다. 초기에 자폐증을 정신병의 아형으로 보다가 1980년 (DMS-III)을 기점으로 전반적 발달장애로의 개념 변천이 일어났다 원인설도, 초기의 심리${\cdot}$환경설은 지지 받지 못하고 1960년대에는 신경${\cdot}$생물학적 이상이 자폐병리의 기저를 이룸이 분명해 졌고 1970년대에는 지각과 운동, 감각과 인지 통합의 결함, 심각한 언어, 인지의 장해가 일차적인 결함으로 생각 되었다 최근 1980년 후반기 부터 상징적${\cdot}$표상적 인지의 결함, 타인의 감정과 생각의 이해 결함, 사회적${\cdot}$정감적 표현의 결함등 사회${\cdot}$정서발달의 이상이 자폐의 근본적 결함이라는 비교 관찰 연구가 많이 보고되어, 자폐증의 근본적이고 일차적인 결함이 정감적 접촉의 선천적 장애라는 Kanner의 놀라운 임상적 통찰을 증명해 주고 있다. 저자는 이상의 광범위한 문헌 고찰을 통해 자폐장애를 일차성 애착장애로 개념화하고 앞으로 치료, 교육의 방향도 일차적으로 사회${\cdot}$정서발달에 촛점을 두어야 하며, 특히 어머니와의 애착증진 치료가 필요함을 제안하고 있다.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.595-610
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• 2011

It is hard to understand the coexistence of giftedness and disorder in an individual, but the twice-exceptional is widely recognized now. Gifted autistic spectrum disorder is one of its subtypes in which giftedness exists with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) simultaneously. Like other constructs including giftedness, the nature of gifted ASD has not been understood in a fundamental and wholistic manner. This paper suggests a cognitive mechanism of gifted ASD based on the integrated model of human abilities(Song, 2009; Song & Porath, 2005), which explains how giftedness coexists with ASD and interacts with each other, producing the characteristics of gifted individuals with ASD. According to the suggested mechanism, the excessive growth of mental spaces in the brain may cause ASD. The over-grown mental spaces result in excessively strong short-term sensory memory and better facility of processing, promoting internal cognitive activities on one hand, but relative lack of cognitive activities in the real world space results in ASD symptoms on the other hand. The cognitive structure of gifted ASD students also contributes to the presentation of giftedness in specific domains. This study suggests that gifted individuals with ASD need to be discouraged from fully engaging in domains they are interested in or the most confident of, rather to be encouraged to invest their giftedness to overcome their ASD symptoms. This study also provides new perspectives on theoretical and educational approaches for gifted ASD.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.137-155
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• 2019

The present study investigated the relationships between autistic trait and socio-moral judgments. We used Autism Spectrum Quotient, a moral judgment task in which participants needed to consider both the intention and outcomes of a person's actions, a moral judgment task in which participants were asked to evaluate a person's utilitarian choices in moral dilemmas, and Moral Foundations Questionnaire. Autistic traits were negatively correlated with blame for failed attempts to harm others, suggesting that higher autistic traits were associated with difficulty in considering intentions in moral judgments. Also, higher autistic traits were associated with higher endorsement of utilitarian option on personal moral dilemmas, and lower endorsement for no-harm principle of moral foundations. These correlations were confirmed as group differences between high autistic-trait group (AQ >= 26) and a low autistic-trait group (AQ < 26). Our findings suggest that individuals with high autistic trait may have difficulty in considering others' intentions and show lower sensitivity to no-harm principle in moral judgment tasks.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.148-153
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• 1998

Objectives：This study investigated the severity and frequency of depression in mothers with autistic children and the correlation between K-BDI score of mothers with autism and severity of autistic symptoms of their children. Methods：The subjects for this study consisted of 45 autistic children and their mothers. The severity of autistic symptoms of children were evaluated by K-CARS and severity of depressive symptoms of mothers with autistic children evaluated by the K-BDI. Results：1) Total K-BDI scores of mothers with autistic children were $17.3{\pm}10.9$ and this score was belonged to subclinical depression on the K-BDI STEN score. There were significant differences of total KBDI score between in mothers with autistic children and in those of normal control. The 26.7% of 45 mothers with autistic children were depression. 2) There was no correlation between total K-BDI score and each factor of mothers with autistic children and K-CARS score of the their children. Conclusion：There were many depression in mothers with autistic children than in those of normal control. This result suggested that the education and the supportive psychotherapy for mothers with autistic children is as important as the treatment for autism.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Cognitive Science Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.261-266
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• 2005

본 논문은 고기능 자폐 아동들이 담화 주제어 연속성(topic continuity)을 어떻게 습득하는지에 대해 검토하였다. 연구의 목적을 위하여 세 고기능 자폐 아동(9;11-12:2)의 자연 발화를 관찰 분석하였다. 사전 연구에 의하면, 자폐아동들은 의사소통의 기본적인 규칙을 잘 이해하지 못할 뿐만 아니라 타인의 사고와 기대 등에 민감하지 못하여 담화 주제를 적절히 유지하거나 전환하는(topic shift) 일에 많은 어려움을 겪는다. 본 연구는 한국 자폐아동들이 주제어의 유지와 전환 등, 담화 화용적(discourse-pragmatic) 기능의 발달 양상을 규명하는 것을 주요 목표로 한다. 본 연구의 자료는 세 자폐 아동의 자연 발화 내용으로서 1주-2주에 한번씩 매번 방문 시 120분 동안 녹음하였다. 분석 결과 다음의 몇 가지 습득 양상을 발견하였다. 첫째, 세 자폐 아동들에게서 발견된 주제 유지 빈도는 정상 아동들에 비해 낮았다. 한편. 이 아이들은 가끔 화제를 자신의 담화 주제로 돌려 자신의 주제 중심으로 대화를 지속했다. 이 아동들은 대화 상대자의 주제에 대해서는 민감하지 않지만 자신의 주제를 유지하려는 경향을 보이기도 한다. 둘째, 개별 아동을 검토한 결과, 담화 주제의 지속성이 높은 발화를 하는 아동은 현재 담화 주제에 더 민감하고 반향어를 산출할 때에도 자기 자신의 말 반복과 담화 상대자의 말을 반복하는 빈도가 별로 차이가 나지 않았다. 반면, 담화 주제의 지속성이 낮은 발화를 하는 아동은 이전 담화 주제에 더 민감하고, 반향어는 담화 상대자의 말 보다는 자기 자신의 말을 반복하는 비율이 더 높았다. 본 연구의 결과는 자폐 아동들이 담화 주제를 지속하는 능력이 많이 부족하지만, 담화 주제의 연속성은 다른 발화 유형과 상호 작용을 하면서 발달될 수 있다는 가능성을 보여 주었다. 따라서 본 연구 결과는 앞으로 자폐 아동의 연구가 집단 간의 연구뿐만 아니라 개별 아동의 발화에 쓰인 유형 간의 상호 관계를 주목함으로써 자폐 아동의 개별적 언어 치료에 새로운 시각을 심어 줄 가능성을 시사한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.37 no.11
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• pp.1422-1426
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to test characteristics between normal and autistic children via comparison of nutrient intakes, hair mineral, blood free radical, and serotonin contents. A total of 50 children aged 3-9 were divided into two main groups of normal control children (n=22) and autistic children (n=28) tested by child psychiatrist. The nutrient intakes by 24-hour recall method were no significantly different between the two groups. The concentrations of toxic mineral, such as cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) in hair of autistic children were significantly higher, while concentration of antioxidant mineral (Cu, Zn, Fe) was lower than that of normal children. The autistic children had significantly higher concentrations of blood free radical than that of normal children. No significant difference was observed in serotonin concentration between the two groups. Our results suggest a possible role of increased toxic mineral and free radical, both of which may be relevant to the pathophysiology of autism in children with developmental delay.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.39-49
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• 2020

The prosody of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has several abnormal features, including monotonous speech. The purpose of this study was to compare acoustic features between an ASD group and a typically developing (TD) group and within the ASD group. The study also examined audience perceptions of the lengthening effect of increasing the number of syllables. 50 participants were divided into two groups (20 with ASD and 30 TD), and they were asked to imitate a total of 28 sentences. In the auditory-perceptual evaluation, seven participants chose sentence types in 115 sentences. Pitch, intensity, speech rate, and pitch slope were used to analyze the significant differences. In conclusion, the ASD group showed higher pitch and intensity and a lower overall speaking rate than the TD group. Moreover, there were significant differences in s2 slope of interrogative sentences. Finally, based on the auditory-perceptual evaluation, only 4.3% of interrogative sentences produced by participants with ASD were perceived as declarative sentences. The cause of this abnormal prosody has not been clearly identified; however, pragmatic ability and other characteristics of autism are related to ASD prosody. This study identified prosodic ASD patterns and suggested the need to develop treatments to improve prosody.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• v.23 no.3 s.31
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• pp.309-315
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• 1990

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of zinc administration on the autistic children. The subject diagnosed as infantile autism were 24 male and 10 female children of a special school in Taegu city. Control group were selected from 1:2 ratio matched with cases on sex and age. The results were as followings. In female autistic group, the mean content of zinc in hair was significantly lower than control group, but in male the result was inverse at all age group. The content of zinc in hair showed significant correlation with age in male autistic group and control group. Zinc content of hair, age and sex accounted for 37.2% of the variance of autistic score and the most significant variable was zinc content. Autistic group were divided into two group. Group I which zinc content of hair below 150 ppm were administrated with multi-vitamin contained 10 mg of zinc, Group II which zinc content of hair above 150 ppm were administrated with placebo. Total administration period was eight weeks. In zinc administration group, there was a decreasing tendency of autistic score as the zinc content of hair was increased but the relationship was not statistically significant.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.245-256
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• 2011

This study consists of two sections to figure out the relationship between autistic features and empathizing-systemizing traits. For the first section, the research involved 355 university students to measure their EQ, SQ-R and AQ. As a result, it is found that AQ was negatively correlated to EQ, and D score(relative difference between EQ and SQ-R of the individuals), but it was not significantly related to SQ-R. It means that the subject has high AQ if he has relatively lower EQ than SQ-R. For the second section, the subjects were divided into two groups based on their AQ score; the subjects who had a tendency of autism and the subjects who did not. The test measured how these two groups were different in terms of facial expressions' recognition according to the tendency of autism, facial expression presenting areas(whole face, eyes-alone, mouth-alone) and different types of emotions(basic and complex emotions). As a result, the subjects who had a tendency of autism were lower at judging facial expressions than the subjects who did not. Also, the results showed that the subjects judged better on the condition of basic emotions more than complex emotions, the whole face more than eyes-alone and mouth-alone. Especially, for the eyes-alone condition, the subjects who had a tendency of autism were lower at judging facial expressions than the subjects who did not. This study suggests that empathizing traits and facial expressions' recognition are related to the tendency of autism.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.07a
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• pp.529-530
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 MindWave와 AR 헤드셋 기기를 연동하여 자폐 스펙트럼 장애 아동이 불안감을 느낄 때 발산되는 뇌파 신호를 실시간으로 감지한다. 또한 실시간 객체 검출을 위한 YOLOv5 알고리즘을 통해 시각적 정보를 수집하여 해당 아동이 불안감을 느끼는 원인을 파악하고 이에 맞는 해결책을 AR 형태로 제시하며 자폐 스펙트럼 장애 아동이 불안감을 느끼면 보호자에게 알림을 전송하는 앱을 구현한다. 이를 통해 자폐 스펙트럼 장애 아동의 뇌파 안정과 정서 회복을 돕고 실생활에서 발생할 수 있는 돌발 상황을 방지할 수 있는 시스템을 제안한다.