ToM and Communication Impairment

Question 1

Surian et al (1996)

Answer 1

Autistic children struggle with most forms of pragmatics

Question 2

Spanudis et al (2016)

Answer 2

Children with a specific language impairment in pragmatics demonstrate lower levels of ToM
Defecit in understanding pragmatics can lead to a poorer display of ToM
Understanding of pragmaticss may be needed in orderr to pass FBTs?
Not done on autistic children

Question 3

Iao and Leekam (2014)

Answer 3

Autistic children do worse that neurotypical children on nonverbal reality unknown FBTs - means that the autistic childs inability to pass FBTs is not associated with language or executive function but an impairment in cognitive empathy

Question 4

Peterson et al (2016)

Answer 4

The link between ToM and social competancy with peers is mediated by language ability
The autistic child may have good ToM and social competancy but are not able to express this without language
Correlational