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Mothers' "and" Fathers' Use of Internal State Talk with Their Young Children
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LaBounty, Jennifer; Wellman, Henry M.; Olson, Sheryl; Lagattuta, Kristin; Liu, David – Social Development, 2008
The present study extends previous results demonstrating a relation between maternal discourse and child social understanding to include paternal discourse. Emotion understanding (EU) and theory of mind (ToM) were considered as two distinctive aspects of social understanding. Participants were 106 children (54 boys and 52 girls) studied at 3.5 and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Social Cognition, Fathers, Social Development
Thought-Bubbles Help Children with Autism Acquire an Alternative to a Theory of Mind.
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Wellman, Henry M.; Baron-Cohen, Simon; Caswell, Robert; Gomez, Juan Carlos; Swettenham, John; Toye, Eleanor; Lagattuta, Kristin – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2002
Two studies with a total of 17 children (ages 5-18) with autism tested a picture-in-the-head strategy for dealing with thoughts and behavior using cartoon thought-bubbles to represent various mental states. The thought-bubble training led to the children passing not only false belief tests but also theory of mind tests. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Beliefs, Children