Teaching Children with Autism to Mind-Read

This workbook expands upon the authors? Teaching Children withAutism to Mind-Read: A Practical Guide to present the mosteffective approaches, strategies, and practical guidelines to helpalleviate social and communication problems in individuals withAutism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).* Complements the best-selling Teaching Children with Autismto Mind-Read: A Practical Guide for use in practicalsettings* Answers the need for more training of professionals in earlyinterventions for children assessed with ASD called for by theNational Plan for Autism* Written by a team of experts in the field* Covers issues such as how to interpret facial expressions; howto recognize feelings of anger, sadness, fear and happiness; how toperceive how feelings are affected by what happens and what isexpected to happen; how to see things from another person?sperspective; and how to understand another person?s knowledge andbeliefs

1 Introduction 1Julie A. Hadwin, Hanna Kovshoff, Simon Baron-Cohen and Patricia Howlin2 Visual Perspective Taking 9Level 1: Simple Perspective Taking 10Level 2: Complex Perspective Taking 143 Conceptual Perspective Taking 17Level 3: Seeing Leads to Knowing 21Level 4: True Belief 44Level 5: False Belief 65Level 6: Embedded Beliefs 106Appendix 128Bibliography 137Postscript 140Index 145