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Korkiakangas, Terhi; Dindar, Katja; Laitila, Aarno; Kärnä, Eija – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2016
Background: The Sally-Anne test has been extensively used to examine children's theory of mind understanding. Many task-related factors have been suggested to impact children's performance on this test. Yet little is known about the interactional aspects of such dyadic assessment situations that might contribute to the ways in which children…
Descriptors: Children, Theory of Mind, Communication Disorders, Beliefs
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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