Seeing both Wood and Trees: A Theory-of-Mind Spectrum Emerges from the Conversations with Students Identified with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Intellectual Difficulties

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Hwang, Yoon-Suk
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2013
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Despite its explanatory capacity for the impairments of social communication observed in people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), Theory-of-Mind (ToM) has been challenged for excessively focusing on cognition and overlooking the individual differences and complexity of personal and social experiences that people with ASD encounter. Responding to a call for investigating ToM from the second-person perspective (Reddy & Morris, 2009), this study invited 20 Korean students identified with ASD and intellectual difficulties to engage in the conversational enquiry process to explore their ToM related experience. A Theory-of-Mind Spectrum Model is suggested to embrace the complexity of Theory-of-Mind for individuals with ASD and intellectual difficulties, including both strengths and difficulties. Educational implications are discussed.

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Journal of the Korean Association for Persons with Autism

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13

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3

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Special Education and Disability

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