Teaching Children with Autism to Mind-Read

Julie Hadwin is Lecturer in Developmental Psychology at Southampton University, UK.  Patricia Howlin is Professor of Clinical Child Psychology at the Institue of Psychiatry, King’s College, London. She is the author of numerous books and articles on intervention in autism, including Children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome (1998). Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology and Director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University, UK, and one of the co-discoverers of the 'theory of mind' deficit in autism. His books include Mindblindness (1995), The Essential Difference (2003) and Autism and Asperger Syndrome: The Facts (2009).

• 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

“Overall, I think this book would be helpful for any professional working with younger children (around 4-12 years) who are on the Autism Spectrum, in developing their social skills through using theory of mind.”  (ACAMH, 26 March2015)