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de Veld, Danielle M. J.; Howlin, Patricia; Hoddenbach, Elske; Mulder, Fleur; Wolf, Imke; Koot, Hans M.; Lindauer, Ramón; Begeer, Sander – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
This RCT investigated whether the effect of a Theory of Mind (ToM) intervention for children with ASD was moderated by parental education level and employment, family structure, and parental ASD. Children with autism aged 8-13 years (n = 136) were randomized over a waitlist control or treatment condition. At posttest, children in the treatment…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Theory of Mind, Intervention
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Robinson, Sally; Howlin, Patricia; Russell, Ailsa – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
The relationship between dissociable components of autobiographical memory (e.g. semantic personality traits and episodic memory retrieval) and other cognitive skills that are proposed to enable one to develop a sense of self (e.g. introspection) have not previously been explored for children with autism spectrum disorder. This study compared…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Memory, Recall (Psychology), Comparative Analysis
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Lecciso, Flavia; Petrocchi, Serena; Marchetti, Antonella – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2013
The study assessed Theory of Mind (ToM) abilities in a group of oral deaf children and in their hearing mothers using a battery of ToM tasks. It also investigated the connection between mother and child in ToM performance. Participants were: 17 oral deaf children (aged 5 to 14 years) were paired by gender, age, and mental age with 17 hearing…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Deafness, Children, Mothers
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Flood, Andrea Mary; Hare, Dougal Julian; Wallis, Paul – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
Deficits in social functioning are a core feature of autistic spectrum disorders (ASD), being linked to various cognitive and developmental factors, but there has been little attempt to draw on normative models of social cognition to understand social behaviour in ASD. The current study explored the utility of Crick and Dodge's (1994) information…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Early Adolescents, Social Cognition, Theory of Mind
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Goldstein, Thalia R. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2011
Empathy, theory of mind, and adaptive emotion regulation are critical skills for social functioning. However, the ways in which these skills may co- or differentially develop has thus far been understudied. We explored how these social-cognitive skills converge and diverge across a year of development in early adolescence, and with different kinds…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Visual Arts, Musicians, Early Adolescents
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Dyck, Murray; Piek, Jan – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2010
Background & Aims: We tested the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) hypothesis that so-called specific developmental disorders are marked by a pattern of specific discrepant achievement, and an alternative hypothesis that children with these disorders show a pattern of relatively pervasive low achievement. Methods…
Descriptors: Children, Early Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Theory of Mind