Caldeira, M. (August 2016). Is Social Competence Achievable in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder? Retrieved from Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository.
Monica Caldeira, who is a graduate student at Western University, uses her thesis paper to examine the social competence of adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Caldeira relates autistic individuals social struggle with the Theory of the Mind. She describes this theory as, “the ability to attribute mental states to self and others in order to predict and explain behaviour; an ability that appears to be a prerequisite for normal social interaction”. Thus, she theorizes that people living with ASD do not develop a theory of the mind, or, if they do, they develop it much
Monica Caldeira, who is a graduate student at Western University, uses her thesis paper to examine the social competence of adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Caldeira relates autistic individuals social struggle with the Theory of the Mind. She describes this theory as, “the ability to attribute mental states to self and others in order to predict and explain behaviour; an ability that appears to be a prerequisite for normal social interaction”. Thus, she theorizes that people living with ASD do not develop a theory of the mind, or, if they do, they develop it much