Teaching Children with Autism to Mind-Read

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A Practical Guide for Teachers and Parents

By Simon Baron-Cohen and Julie A. Hadwin and Patricia Howlin

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Teaching Children with Autism to Mind-Read addresses the significant challenges children with autism face in understanding others' thoughts, beliefs, desires, and intentions, which contribute to social and communication difficulties. The authors explore theory of mind deficits and relate them to children's broader functioning. Drawing from their own intervention programme, the book offers practical, step-by-step teaching materials and strategies aimed at helping children on the autism spectrum enhance their recognition of facial expressions, emotions such as anger and happiness, and the perspective and knowledge of others.
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This guide is particularly intended for special needs teachers, educational and clinical psychologists, speech and language therapists, and carers of children with autism spectrum conditions.

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The difficulties experienced by children with autism and related conditions in inferring the thoughts, beliefs, desires and intentions of others are well documented in numerous studies. It now seems that these deficits underlie many of the social and communication problems that are characteristic of autism. Teaching Children with Autism to Mind-Read explores the relationship of "theory of mind" deficits to other areas of children's functioning and describes existing experimental work that has attempted to enhance the skills associated with understanding others' minds.

Drawing on their own intervention programme, and providing detailed information about the teaching materials and strategies they use, the authors provide practical guidelines for helping children with autism spectrum conditions to improve their understanding of beliefs, emotions, and pretence.

The authors tackle specific problematic issues including: how to interpret facial expressions, how to recognise feelings of anger, sadness, fear, and happiness, how feelings are affected by what happens and what is expected to happen, how to see things from another person's perspective, and how to understand another person's knowledge and beliefs.

This easy-to-follow graded teaching guide is of particular relevance to special needs teachers, educational and clinical psychologists, speech and language therapists, and carers of children with autism spectrum conditions.

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Child Psychology Psychiatry highly recommends the book for teachers, speech and language clinicians, psychologists, and others working with more able children with autism. The RCSLT Bulletin regards it as a valuable resource for anyone supporting children and adults on the autistic spectrum.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780471976233

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 November 1998

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 590g

Pages: 304

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Education & Reference Julie A. Hadwin Non-Fiction Patricia Howlin Simon Baron-Cohen

About the Author

Patricia Howlin is Principal Clinical Psychologist at the Maudsley Hospital, London, working mainly with autistic children and those suffering from pervasive developmental disorders. She is also Senior Lecturer in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. She has been involved in research and treatment with autistic children for many years. Her research interests include a follow-up study of autistic individuals, and a comparison of young autistic adults and a matched group of individuals with severe early language delays.

Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology and Director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University, UK, and one of the co-discoverers of the 'theory of mind' deficit in autism. His books include Mindblindness (1995); The Essential Difference (2003); and Autism and Asperger Syndrome: The Facts (2009).

Julie A. Hadwin is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Southampton. She has used cognitive models to study emotional disorders in childhood and has written several seminal papers to understand attention to threat in childhood anxiety. Her publications include Teaching Children with Autism to Mind-Read (with Patricia Howlin and Simon Baron-Cohen, Wiley, 1999).

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