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Do Autistic Children Lack a 'Theory of Mind'? Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder. The term 'pervasive' is used because early developmental processes are often so seriously impaired that a child usually requires a special educational setting. This type of disorder is seen in the DSM-VI as the most devastating and perplexing. Autism involves noticeable abnormalities in a child's social adjustment. Problems also occur in many domains of functioning, language, attention, social responsiveness, perception and motor development. The symptoms of autism are first observed very early in life, usually in infancy. The essential feature of the disorder is the child's lack of ability to respond to others within the first three years of its life. Even at this young age, the child's social deficits are quite noticeable, along with the bizarre responses that these children make to their environment. They lack response and interest in people, and fail to develop normal...

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