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| Int'l Paper - The Ability of Autistic Children to Interpret Their Own as Well as Other People’s Mental States (Translated into Spanish) |
| Monday, May 31, 2004 |
| 9:00 AM–9:50 AM |
| Beacon F |
| Area: AUT |
| Chair: Inmaculada Gomez Becerra (University of Almeria, Spain) |
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| The Ability of Autistic Children to Interpret Their Own as Well as Other People’s Mental States (Translated into Spanish) |
| Domain: Applied Research |
| INMACULADA GOMEZ BECERRA (University of Almeria, Spain), Maria Jesus Martin (University of Almeria, Spain), R. Douglas Greer (Teachers College, Columbia University), Mapy Chavez Brown (Teachers College, Columbia University) |
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| Abstract: This study is related with the Theory of the Mind from the Behavior Analytic contextual perspective, concerning repertoires of interpreting one own and other people's mental and emotional states. The data were as a behavior analystic test in response to the currently porpular Theory of the Mind. We tested students the metacognitives repertoires of children with and without disabilities (i.e., autism, Down syndrome, typically developing children) in tests of false believes (e.g., test of the faces, tests of Ann and Sally...), and when it´s necessary we give verbal helps (or contextual cue) that facilitate the discrimination. We also tested the Theory of Mind in a third and behavior analytic contextual perspective. The differences regarding those metacognitives abilities but regarding other abilities and knowledge like the language levels (the verbal scales of the WIPPSI and some items of the Guide Portage), the discriminative repertoire related with the tests (discrimination of the self, your and he/she, of actions present, last and future, of absence and witnesses…), the level of derived relationships and symbolic repertoire. The results are analyzed interpreting one own and other people's mental and emotional states ability as verbal behavior and relational, as well as abstraction and complex discrimination. |
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