Abstract
Metaphor plays an important role in human’s way of thinking and the using of language. Compared to typically developing (TD) children, the researches on metaphorical competence in Chinese high-functioning autistic children are relatively few. The present research is aimed to study the competences and defects of metaphor comprehension in Chinese children with high-functioning autism (HFA) as well as analyze the possible reasons. In order to achieve the goal, the research conducts an experiment on 26 children with HFA and 26 TD controls with the questions designed on the basis of Metaphoric Triads Task (MTT). The results shows that children with HFA have certain metaphorical competences but compared to the TD children, Chinese autistic children showed worse integrative manifestations than TD children. The results also reveal that metaphors based on shape similarity are the easiest to understand for HFA children.
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