The Comparison Theory of Mind Dimension in Autism Children and Normal Children Isfahan City

Subject Areas : Educational

tahere heidari ¹ , arezoo sfahmive ² , shalar framarzi ³

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Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2017-10-17

Keywords: children with/ withoutAutism Disorders, Key words: theory of mind,

Abstract :

  The purpose of this study was the comparison of mind Dimensions theory in children with/ without Autism Disorders in Isfahan city. The research method was causal- Comparative. The subjects were boys(age 5-10 years) with Autism Disorders, from whom 15 children with Autism Disorders who had suitable oral ability were selected, and 15 Normal Children who were ethnographically in harmony were chosen as the control group. Theory of mind Scale of Morris and colleagues (1999) was used to gather the data. After gathering the data the statistical analysis of variance was applied and the following results were revealed: The difference between the performance of children with Autism Disorders in theory of mind test scales was significant (P < 0.001). It shows that children with Autism Disorders were lower than the normal children in theory of mind test scores and other levels. Thus, children with Autism Disorders must receive different attention and interpretation compared with typical children.