2013 Volume 39 Issue 2 Pages 87-94
This paper overviews the current state of the research to improve the ability to interpret facial expression of children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and intellectual disabilities and discusses the issues the author thinks needs to be addressed. One of the issues focuses on the importance of development of a learning program making the use of animation in order to make it possible to learn delicate facial expression. Besides, it also discusses the adoption of animation which acts in such a way as to bring about the possibility to serve as one of the supporting methods for facial expression which is a challenge for children and adults with ASD and refers to the necessity for further discussion about this subject. In addition, many preceding researches put evaluation subjects in practice before and after study but it is difficult to say that the examination was sufficient when it comes to the degree of generalization of the action to daily lives. So it describes about how to evaluate the effect of learning about facial expression on the scene of daily life. And, together with the improvement of the ability to interpret facial expression of children and adults with ASD and intellectual disabilities, it makes mention of facial expression learning program under development for educational and research purposes including the challenge to those three issues with the introduction of the outline of the learning program.
