التفاعل الاجتماعي وعلاقته بمهام نظرية العقل لدى أطفال الروضة ذوي اضطراب طيف التوحد
The study aimed to investigate the relationship between social interaction and concepts of theory of mind among kindergarten children with autism spectrum disorder, and the study sample consisted of thirty children from kindergarten with autism spectrum disorder, who were diagnosed using the Gilliam scale. The theory of mind concepts was applied to them. Prepared by: Abdel-Aziz AlShakhs, and Salwa Rushdi 2012, and the measure of social interaction prepared by the researcher. Between the sexes in social interaction in favor of females, and the differences were significant at 0.01, also between the sexes in concepts of the theory of mind in favor of females. Finally, one dimension of social interaction, which is social initiative, predicts the concepts of the theory of mind alone, and the results were interpreted in the light of the theoretical framework and previous studies, and a number of procedural recommendations were presented. (Published abstract)