Case Study Of The Improvement Of Interpersonal Skills Of The High-functioning Autism Child In Normal Class

The high-functioning autism children in normal classes is a special group,basically, they can adapt to the activities of school life and also can acquireknowledge, develop intelligence like normal children at their age. Indeed, they canachieve success in a special domain through hard work. But in normal classes, thehigh-functioning children are always the weird one. They always keep silence, theycan’t communicate with other people and have no friends. Lack of interpersonalskills is the main problem of high-functioning children in normal classes and it isalso the key factor which detach them from normal children. According to thissituation, improving the interpersonal skills of the high-functioning autism childrenin normal classes is the most important and hardest part in their interventionactivities. However, the intervention to this subject, by far, is rare and the effect isnot very remarkable.The purpose of this research is to collect information about high-functioningchildren in normal classes and understand the life of high-functioning children innormal classes by observation and conversation. Based on Dr.steven Gustein’sRelationship Development Intervention and the high-functioning children’s lives, thepurpose of this research is to make an intervention scheme and test its feasibility andvalidity. The scheme has6subjects and each subject includes3activities. Theprocess of the intervention continued3months, with classmates involved all thetime.This intervention is an exploration to improve the interpersonal skills of thehigh-functioning children in normal classes. The result of implementation provesthat this intervention scheme can improve the interpersonal skills of thehigh-functioning children in normal classes and the intervention scheme is effective.