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Perspective-Taking Skills
The ability to understand and predict how other people are thinking or feeling is a very complex and abstract skill. Teaching perspective-taking skills to children with autism is a necessary piece of developing appropriate social skills.
Quick Strategy: To assist in teaching perspective-taking skills use visuals of drawings or pictures of people in social scenarios, draw or insert “thought bubbles” above each person indicating what each of the people might be thinking.
Teach your child to reflect accurately on other people’s perspectives using context, clues and background knowledge to draw conclusions on other people’s thoughts and feelings.
Work with your child on developing his ability to “fill-in-the-blank” of people’s thought bubbles both in pictures and during or after social interactions in his or her natural environment.
AmyShymansky @ October 27, 2009