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With reference to one developmental disorder critically discuss how theory…

- - - - Theory of mind is defined as awareness that peoples thoughts and beleifs guide their behaviour even when these beleifs are false (Peterson et al., 2009).
        
        Difficulty to understand anothers mind is a core cognitive feauture of ASD. Two other cognitive features are weak central cohorans and executive dysfunction (Bahron-cohan, 2000). The theory of mind difficulty seems to be universal between autistic individuals.
        
        Developmental tests reveal this, such as the sally anne test
    - - When the question was "where will sally look?" the autistic children pointed to where the marble actually was meaning that they fail to emply a theory of mind.
    - - As a result it is beleived that the failure of ToM is the central explaining the difficulties experienced by people with ASD. Therefore ToM and its precursor skills are the target for interventions (Fletcher-watson et al., 2014).