It is now established that difficulties in understanding other people's minds underlie many of the social and communication problems that are characteristic of autism. This book offers practical teaching materials for the practitioner in the field, exploring the relationship of 'theory of mind' deficits to social and communication problems in children with autism. Based on their successful experimental work, the authors provide a detailed intervention programme, with accessible teaching materials to help autistic children improve their understanding of beliefs, emotion and pretence. The improved and expanded second edition now incorporates two books; a practitioner's guide (0470093226) that covers the up to date theory and background to the approach, and a print and electronic workbook (0470093242) that can be used with children, or by young people and adults, as a learning tool.
It is now established that difficulties in understanding other people's minds underlie many of the social and communication problems that are characteristic of autism. This book offers practical teaching materials for the practitioner in the field, exploring the relationship of 'theory of mind' deficits to social and communication problems in children with autism. Based on their successful experimental work, the authors provide a detailed intervention programme, with accessible teaching materials to help autistic children improve their understanding of beliefs, emotion and pretence. The improved and expanded second edition now incorporates two books; a practitioner's guide (0470093226) that covers the up to date theory and background to the approach, and a print and electronic workbook (0470093242) that can be used with children, or by young people and adults, as a learning tool.
1 Introduction 1
Julie A. Hadwin, Hanna Kovshoff,
Simon Baron-Cohen and Patricia Howlin
2 Visual Perspective Taking 9
Level 1: Simple Perspective Taking 10
Level 2: Complex Perspective Taking 14
3 Conceptual Perspective Taking 17
Level 3: Seeing Leads to Knowing 21
Level 4: True Belief 44
Level 5: False Belief 65
Level 6: Embedded Beliefs 106
Appendix 128
Bibliography 137
Postscript 140
Index 145
Julie Hadwin is Lecturer in Developmental Psychology at SouthamptonUniversity, UK. Patricia Howlin is Professor of Clinical Child Psychology at theInstitue of Psychiatry, King s College, London. She is theauthor of numerous books and articles on intervention in autism,including Children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome(1998). Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Developmental Psychopathologyand Director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University,UK, and one of the co-discoverers of the 'theory of mind' deficitin autism. His books include Mindblindness (1995), TheEssential Difference (2003) and Autism and AspergerSyndrome: The Facts (2009).
“Overall, I think this book would be helpful for any professional working with younger children (around 4-12 years) who are on the Autism Spectrum, in developing their social skills through using theory of mind.” (ACAMH, 26 March2015)
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