ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2023
Training Syntax to Enhance Theory of Mind in Children with ASD.
Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Visual recursion without recursive language? a case study of a minimally verbal autistic child.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Defining the Characteristics of Story Production of Autistic Children: A Multilevel Analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- The longitudinal relations between mental state talk and theory of mind.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Language in autism: domains, profiles and co-occurring conditions.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2023Review
- Comparing Theory of Mind Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Developmental Language Disorder, and Typical Development.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2022Article
- Comparing to a Neurotypical Norm Is Normal in Autistic Language and Communication Research: A Cross-Sectional Systematic Review and Critical Analysis of Recent Literature.Autism & developmental language impairmentsReview
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Abstract
Preschool children with neurotypical development (ND) trained on sentential complements ("X thinks/says that") improve their Theory of Mind (ToM) performance. Can complementation training also enhance ToM in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)? Thirty-three children with ASD (Mage = 8;11) and 20 younger ND peers (Mage = 4;3) were trained on sentential complements (4-6 weeks, 2-3 times per week, via the DIRE i-Pad App). Pre-training and post-training comparisons show that (1) training boosted both complementation and ToM performance across groups; (2) improvements remained 4-6 weeks after training ended; (3) participants with milder ASD symptoms made most gains. Training on sentential complements thus seems beneficial for addressing ToM difficulties in children with ASD, especially those with milder symptoms.
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