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Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test-Child Version
Availability
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Classification

Supplemental for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Short Description of Instrument

In this test, children are presented with photographs of the eyes of adults and given a choice of four emotions or mental states for each picture, and must choose which emotion is represented. The test was originally developed for autism and has applicability to TBI.
The test is individually administered and takes about 10 minutes.
Scoring

Range of scores is 0-36.
References

Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Scahill, V., Lawson, J., and Spong, A. (2001). Are intuitive physics and intuitive psychology independent? A test with children with Asperger Syndrome. J Dev Learn Dis 5, 47-78.
Tonks, J., Williams, W., Frampton, I., Yates, P., and Slater, A. (2007). Reading emotions after child brain injury: a comparison between children with brain injury and non-injured controls. Brain Inj 21(7), 731- 739.
Tonks, J., Williams, W., Frampton, I., Yates, P., Wall, S., and Slater, A. (2008). Reading emotions after childhood brain injury: case series evidence of dissociation between cognitive abilities and emotional expression processing skills. Brain Inj 22(4), 325-332.

 

Document last updated August 2017