Social Conversation skills in Children with Autism with Special Reference to Affective understanding and Perspective Taking

Abstract

Affective understanding and perspective taking skills involves understanding the facial expressions, emotions of other people and comprehending the context of other’s communication. Children with autism spectrum disorders show a considerable deficit in social interaction and communication.  Social skill interventions for children with autism needs a special focus on developing affective understanding and perspective taking which helps in developing other areas of socialization. Thus, the study focused on parents and teacher perception of affective understanding and perspective taking skills in 200 children with autism was studied. Differences in affective understanding and perspective takings was examined with regard to age, gender and type of family of children with autism. The findings of the studied didn’t show any significant difference in gender and type of family of children with autism. Regarding parent perspective a significant difference was observed between the age and affective understanding of children with autism. The implication of this finding is discussed in detail in this article.