Developing Emotional Reading Skills Training program based on the Theory of Mind (ToM) and study its effectiveness on Autistic Children Empathetic Skills

Eftekhari, Samira; Sadoghi, Majid; Rezae, Saed

Developing Emotional Reading Skills Training program based on the Theory of Mind (ToM) and study its effectiveness on Autistic Children Empathetic Skills

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Samira Eftekhari

Majid Sadoghi

Saed Rezae

Abstract

This study aims were developing emotional reading skills training program based on the Theory of Mind (ToM) and study its effectiveness on Autistic Children Empathetic Skills.
The study was kind of experimental study with pre-test and post-test and control group. Target population consists of all autistic children in 1394 were referred to specialized centers autism Tehran Of subject sample consisted of 16 autistic children with a high performance according to population size, the sampling method, the center of education, rehabilitation and treatment of April was Autism And the three questionnaires, pervasive developmental disorder and Asperger's syndrome grading scale, high-performance Sun Graysvn, Baron-Cohen and empathy test questionnaire responded Mind Reading The results showed that teaching emotional skills in children with autism with high performance improved empathy and Hypothesis They are the children study at a significance level of P<5% reliability were confirm.

Keywords

autism

emotion

high performance