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KMID : 0894920130130030117
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Journal of the Korean Association for Persons with Autism
2013 Volume.13 No. 3 p.117 ~ p.143
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Seeing both Wood and Trees : A Theory-of-Mind Spectrum Emerges from the Conversations with Students Identified with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Intellectual Difficulties
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Hwang Yoon-Suk
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Abstract
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Despite its explanatory capacity for the impairments of social communication observed in people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), Theory-of-Mind (ToM) has been challenged for excessively focusing on cognition and overlooking the individual differences and complexity of personal and social experiences that people with ASD encounter. Responding to a call for investigating ToM from the second-person perspective (Reddy & Morris, 2009), this study invited 20 Korean students identified with ASD and intellectual difficulties to engage in the conversational enquiry process to explore their ToM related experience. A Theory-of-Mind Spectrum Model is suggested to embrace the complexity of Theory-of-Mind for individuals with ASD and intellectual difficulties, including both strengths and difficulties. Educational implications are discussed.
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KEYWORD
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Theory-of-Mind Spectrum, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Intellectual difficulties, Subjective experience, Social model of disability, Self-determination
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