Intensive exposure to narrative in story books as a possibly effective treatment of social perspective-taking in schoolchildren with autism

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Tsunemi, Kohei ^a   Tamura, Ayana ^b   Ogawa, Shino ^c   Isomura, Tomoko ^c   Ito, Hiroyasu ^c   Ida, Misako ^c   Masataka, Nobuo ^c  

^a Iwaki Junior College   (Japan)

^b SHOWA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autism; Mental state; Narrative; Social perspective taking; Treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893584926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00002     Document Type: Article

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