Description
This workbook expands upon the authors? Teaching Children with Autism to Mind-Read: A Practical Guide to present the most effective approaches, strategies, and practical guidelines to help alleviate social and communication problems in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).
- Complements the best-selling Teaching Children with Autism to Mind-Read: A Practical Guide for use in practical settings
- Answers the need for more training of professionals in early interventions for children assessed with ASD called for by the National Plan for Autism
- Written by a team of experts in the field
- Covers issues such as how to interpret facial expressions; how to recognize feelings of anger, sadness, fear and happiness; how to perceive 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
Table of Contents
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
