Role Profile Specificity in Children of the Autistic Spectrum
This paper provides the results related to the study of role profile specificity in children on the autistic spectrum. Promising areas of a supportive model that based on the thorough knowledge of adaptive forms of distorted development briefly discussed. The article is based on results of the analysis and compilation of empirical data. Survey took place at Novosibirsk Secondary Schools (Russia). 30 school students (8-9 years of age) were interviewed and 15 of them represent a group with certain autistic features who were adapted well enough to mass schools. Findings show the role profile of children on the autistic spectrum, in a sense, may reflect different types of distorted links in relation to different types of the child’s emotional contact with other people. This paper presents the findings of the research, which can be used by educational psychologists in their support of educators of children on the autistic spectrum.