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Durrleman, Stephanie; Delage, Hélène – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) experience difficulties with an important Theory of Mind milestone, namely, false belief (FB) reasoning. Their FB success relates to mastery of a linguistic structure that is also challenging for them, namely, sentential complements (e.g., "Claire says/thinks [that Santa Claus…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Language Impairments, Theory of Mind, Misconceptions
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Durrleman, Stephanie – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2020
Understanding that people's ideas may be false is a challenging step in Theory of Mind (ToM) development, which is accomplished around the age of 4-5 years old by typically developing (TD) children. False-belief attribution remains difficult beyond this age for certain clinical populations, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), where delays in…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Correlation, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Durrleman, Stephanie; Burnel, Morgane; Reboul, Anne – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2017
Background: According to the linguistic determinism approach, knowledge of sentential complements such as: "John says that the earth" is flat plays a crucial role in theory of mind (ToM) development by providing a means to represent explicitly people's mental attitudes and beliefs. This approach predicts that mastery of complements…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Language Impairments