A new look at performance on theory-of-mind tasks by adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 236-252

  Silliman, Elaine R ^a   Diehl, Sylvia F ^a   Bahr, Ruth Huntley ^a   Hnath Chisolm, Theresa ^a   Zenko, Catherine Bouchard ^b   Friedman, Stephanie A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Children's Choice for Therapy   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; False belief tasks; Logical inferencing; Social inferencing; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042405195     PISSN: 01611461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/0161-1461(2003/020)     Document Type: Review

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