Educating children with Asperger’s Syndrome. The relationship between levels of social competence and of false belief understanding in children with Asperger’s Syndrome

      Аннотация: Lalonde and Chandler (1995) examined the relationship between social behaviour as determined by teacher ratings on a questionnaire and performance on theory of mind tasks related to the understanding of false belief. Their subjects were normal pre-schoolers. The study reported here used the methodology of Lalonde and Chandler (1995) to investigate the relationship between social behaviour and understanding of false belief in six school-aged boys with Asperger's Syndrome. No clear outcome on the relationship was obtained although greater understanding was seen to relate to age.

Ключевые слова: special education, education, Asperger's Syndrome, social competence, False belief understanding, children with Asperger’s Syndrome