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The Comparison of Executive functions and the Theory of Mind among the Hearing and Deaf Children

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Author Affiliations

  • 1Faculty of Psychology, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, IRAN

Res. J. Recent Sci., Volume 3, Issue (11), Pages 17-22, November,2 (2014)

Abstract

The present study aimed to compare executive function and theory of mind in deaf and hearing children. The study sample consisted of 30 hearing children and 30 deaf children aged 8 to 12 years old in Tehran being intelligence and age- peered. The present study was causal-comparative design. The data were collected by Wisconsin Card and theory of mind test was analyzed using descriptive statistics and multivariate (MANOVA) test. The results showed that in the theory of mind test and executive function test, the deaf children had poor performance compared to the hearing children. The results of Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there was a reverse relation between autism error and the theory of mind.

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