Can children with autism be taught to understand false belief using computers?

Article Abstract:

Autistic children show difficulties in learning the concept of false beliefs generalized to distant transfer tasks, involving different scenarios. On a computer version of the Sally-Anne false belief task, autistic children pass only the close transfer task unlike Down syndrome and normal children, who passed both distant and close transfer tasks. Follow-up results show that the autistic children had just rote learned the Sally-Anne task. The difficulties autistic children face may be in learning about mental states, or generalizing this knowledge, or a combination of both.

Psychological aspects, Methods, Computer-assisted instruction, Computer assisted instruction, Belief and doubt

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Treating people as objects, agents, or "subjects": how young children with and without autism make requests

Article Abstract:

Kohler's (1917) approach to the study of requesting behavior in gorillas is applied to investigate the same behavior in young children with and without autism. The study focuses particularly on the request function of communication in a problem situation. Compared to normal children, those with autism are found to be more likely to use object-centered strategies and less likely to use the person-as-subject strategy in making requests.

Language acquisition, Communicative competence in children

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Theory of mind in children with autistic disorder: evidence of developmental progression and the role of verbal ability

Article Abstract:

A study conducted on the theory of mind in two groups of autistic children with different verbal mental ages, and the relationship between theory of mind task performance and social skills showed that verbal ability is an important contribution to successful task performance. They also showed hierarchical patterns of performance across tasks which suggests a developmental sequence.

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