| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
A longitudinal natural observation study was conducted on a boy with autism spectrum disorder, accompanied by a slight developmental delay (DQ=85), from kindergarten to third grade, to examine language and behavior that were understandable only in limited contexts connected to his experience. The results showed that, at first, his speech contained many lines repeated verbatim from anime (cartoons) and video games and was hard to understand for people who did not know the boy well. After starting elementary school, his speech became more flexible as he learned to read and write and his vocabulary developed. However, he continued to exhibit mildly obsessive behaviors and difficult-to-understand speech (lines from anime, etc.), and he also continued to play make-believe by himself, pretending that he was an anime character.
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