Teaching Children with Autism to Mind-Read: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Parents

Excellent book. Serves it's purposes. Bit on the costlier side though

Muito pratico e direto! Trata de forma clara do ensino de compreender emoções e tomada de perspectiva para crianças com TEA

Excellent book. It’s reported that a large percentage of people with an ASD have mild to severe deficits in their ability to attribute mental states to others (theory of mind). There aren’t many books on the market that specifically target this deficit and this book does just that. Before I go any further, I will say, I couldn’t find much data on whether or not the teaching methods detailed in this book are backed by evidence showing that they work. That’s not to say the methods don’t or won’t produce results, I just didn’t locate any data to support that they would. That all said, I’ve read a handful of some of the best selling “must have” books written on how to implement a home based ABA program, and none of these provide programs or instructions for directly targeting deficits in the ability to apply ToM. This book progresses nicely, beginning with simple recognition of basic emotions through facial expressions, happy, sad, afraid and angry. This is followed by multiple scenarios where a person is illustrated in a particular situation, but the person’s face purposely has not been drawn in. The student then needs to choose from one of the four emptions and state how the person feels. For example, lady being rescued from a burning building. How does she feel? Answer: Scared. Why does she feel scared? There’s more to it than that, but that’s my simplified explanation. From here the book moves into teaching the student desire based emotions. For example there are two pictures given for each scenario. Picture 1 may show a child wanting orange juice, with picture 2 showing the child being handed hot chocolate. How does he feel? Answer: Sad. Again, simplified explanation, but you get the jist. The next section moves into belief based emotions. For these, there are three pictures (and two sub pictures contained within one of the three, one sub picture displays what the child wants, the other is what the child thinks they’re going to receive or will occur). An example of this would be, Picture 1 displays reality, a swing is broken in the park, Picture 2, displays child wanting to play on swing and child also thinks the swing is in working order. How does she feel? Answer: Happy, as she doesn’t know the swing is broken, she hasn’t been to the park yet to see it. Next she arrives at the park. How does she feel when she sees the swing is broken? Answer: Sad. The next sections of the book are based on seeing leads to knowing and predicting actions based on a person’s knowledge. 5 Stars for this book, which targets a critical, if not the most critical deficit of people with an ASD. The book is an excellent starting point for teaching ToM, and I can see where its methods could be used by teachers so that they can create numerous teaching examples of their own. The book recommends that the student has a language level of a 5 year old and above, but of course this doesn’t mean it’s written for 5 year olds, nor does it mean 4 year olds wouldn’t benefit, provided they have the language. Excellent resource and a must have for teachers and parents wanting to target an impaired ToM. Great book.

Si buscas muchas ideas y buenas para trabajar Tªde la mente no lo dudes .Es el complemento perfecto par "Manual de teoría de la mente para niños con autismo" de Anabel Cornago . En Noviembre de 2013 sacarán "Teaching Children with Autism to Mind-Read :The workbook" en la página del editor lo puedes ver : wiley.com . Lo estoy esperando como "agua de mayo" !!!!!

I love the book. The system to teach emotions is wonderful. However, there are some obsolete notions, like using "normal" instead of "regularly developing". Puting this aside, it is a wonderful resource!

I would recommend this book, it appears to be very easy to follow when teaching children with Asd.