International Science Community Association Research Journal of Recent Sciences 2277 - 2502 3 11 2014 November 2 The Comparison of Executive functions and the Theory of Mind among the Hearing and Deaf Children 17 22 EN Amanati Sahar 1 Business Management Department, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, IRAN yazdandoust Majid 1 Department of Civil Eng., Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran- 14115-111, IRAN panah Alikomak 2 Department of Civil Engineering, Parsian University, Qazvin- 14115-111, IRAN Reza Sadeghzadegan 3 Khorasani Homa 1 Faculty of Psychology, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, IRAN Hayedeh Saberi 2 Bagheri Nasrin 3 > Research Paper 2013 10 12 2014 November 2 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. Copyright@ International Science Community Association