The Pretend Play Promoting the Social Skills of Children with Autism

The pretend play refers to a form of the game in which players mean to have virtual imagination with the accurate perception of reality and conduct some unreal behavior consciously without deceiving. Successful pretend play will promote the children's development of language and social competence. However, Children with autism are at risk of not developing pretend play skills, which is one of autistic children's clinical symptoms. Therefore, this research references some training strategies in "learn to play" program, conducts the training on three autistic children. The final result shows that pretend play intervention is effective and feasible for improving autistic children's capacity of pretend play in some degree.