自闭症是一种由于神经系统失调导致的广泛性发展障碍。主要症状是社会交往障碍、兴趣狭隘和重复刻板行为、感官系统异常。这些不同程度症状的组合,使自闭症患者呈现不同的表现,因此每个自闭症儿童都有自己的发展特点。自闭症儿童是特殊儿童中最令人不解和难以干预治疗的群体之一。在当前的医疗水平下仅能通过各种手段对患儿进行早期干预来改善其症状,而美术治疗是当今经过实践检验的为数不多的有效手段之一。 Autism is a generalized developmental disorder caused by disorders in the nervous system. The main symptoms are barriers to social interaction, narrow interests and repeated stereotypes, sensory abnormalities. These different degrees of combination of symptoms, make autistic patients show different performance, so each autistic children have their own development characteristics. Autistic children are among the most obscure and intractable groups in special children. At the current level of medical care, children can only be treated early to improve their symptoms through various means, and art treatment is one of the few effective measures that have been proven in practice today.