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An Investigation of the Social Relationships in Autistic Children: An Annotated Bibliography Abigail Tempel Chapin High School
An Investigation of the Social Relationships of Autistic Children: An Annotated Bibliography The future career I am seriously considering entering is Speech Pathology where I would work with Autistic and regular-ed children on speech and social skills. This research is about experiments that have been done with Autistic children to explore the reasons for the ways they socially interact with people. It was also about why Autistic children dont understand the feeling of loneliness because they would rather be on their own. This research has really helped me to understand the thinking processes of Autistic children and why they have social relationships misunderstandings. These articles are very helpful to someone wishing to understand what Autistic children think about social relationships and how they think social relationships should be. Baron-Cohen, S., Leslie, A. M., & Frith, U. (1985). Does the autistic child have a "theory of mind"? 37-46. Retrieved March 4, 2013. This article is about an experiment that a group of researchers did with normal children, autistic children, and Down syndrome children to test their ability to detect another persons feelings. The autistic children failed the second question which was asking about the dolls thoughts every time they were tested. This article helped me to understand more about why Autistic children don't understand the way we think and what they are thinking about in certain situations. It also helped me to see how much younger their minds work compared to their age. It was also interesting that even the Autistic children had a very high IQ they still failed the behavior question.