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| Defects of facial expression production in preschool boys with autism |
| LI Yanwei1, LU Yao2, LU Chang2, YUAN Zongjin1, CHI Xia3 |
1 College of Early Childhood Education, Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, Nanjing, 211171;
2 Nanjing Zhonghua Road Kindergarten, Nanjing 210006;
3 Women's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Nanjing 210004 |
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Abstract The current study aimed to reveal the defects of facial expression production in preschool boys with autism, suggesting a potential marker for identifying autism in the early years of life. Twenty-seven 3- to 6-year-old boys with autism and fifteen healthy controls participated in the current study. All of them were asked to express and imitate the six kinds of basic facial emotions （happy, angry, sad, fearful, surprised, disgustful） and the movement of facial organs and muscles were recorded. Using facial action coding system, their facial expression production quality was evaluated. The results were as follows：（1） Based on the FACS coding results, preschool boys with autism exhibited poor facial emotion imitation and expression accuracy when compared with healthy controls （p<0.001）; In both tasks, happiness was the easiest but disgust the hardest to acquire among the six kinds of basic facial emotions. （2） Based on the non-experts’ assessment, the degree to which a child expressed or imitated each kind of emotion was computed, and young boys with autism performed worse than healthy controls. The results indicate that young boys with autism exhibit deficits in facial expression production during the early years of life.
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