دراسة تحليلية لصعوبات الفهم الشفهي و مفاهيم نظرية العقل لدى الطفل التوحدي (درجة خفيفة)‎

Abstract EN

This study aimed to describe and analyze the difficulties faced by the autistic child in verbal comprehension and concepts of Theory of mind (TOM), as well as to find how difficulties of verbal comprehension affect the perception of TOM concepts.

To achieve these goals, the researchers used the descriptive approach in case study method, where the sample of the study contained two autistic children (mild level) aged eight years eight months, and nine years one month, they were evaluated with: O52 Test of Abdul Hamid Khoumsi, test of mental reading of Zeghiche Ouarda, Intelligence test of Ijlal Muhammad Sary.

The study showed that The autistic child has a defect in the understanding and merging of the oral information according to its semantic context, difficulty in understanding concepts such as reading ideas, false belief task, unexpected contents, camouflage ability, however, he achieves better results in concepts of identifying the emotional states, changing representation, appearance-reality distinction, finally we found that the effect of verbal comprehension difficulties on the understanding TOM concepts is mainly reflected in verbal concepts, the more difficulties of oral comprehension are, the lower the capacity for mind-reading is.