El presente articulo expone una investigación cuyo objetivo es estudiar comparativamente la conducta de los niños autistas, deficientes no autistas y normales, en una situación de interacción diádica con un adulto. La muestra estaba compuesta por 30 niños, 10 en cada grupo. Los niños de los distintos grupos diagnósticos estaban igualados uno a uno en edad mental y sexo. Los deficientes y los autistas fueron igualados además en edad cronológica. Cada sujeto fue grabado mediante video en una sesión de interacción social. La conducta de los sujetos se codificó atendiendo a 34 categorías de observación que recogían distintos tipos de conducta (conductas proxémicas, de atención, expresivas, instrumentales, estrategias de comunicación, conductas de huida, agresivas…). Se discuten tos resultados y sus implicaciones, sugiriendo nuevas lineas de investigación.
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