Empathy and Perspective-Taking Behavior
This video is about teaching empathy and perspective-taking behavior to the kids with autism.
One of the main characteristics of autism is deficits in social skills and prosocial behaviors. Individuals with autism are less likely to observe and label the emotions of others and therefore lack the ability to take their perspective and respond empathetically.
A study of 2009 suggests that failures in showing empathy in autism are because of an inability to differentiate the stimuli in the presence of which specific responses, such as offering help, would be appropriate. To teach empathy to individuals with autism, the affective discriminative stimuli compounds, prompt delay, modeling through auditory script, manual prompts, behavioral rehearsals, and reinforcement are found effective.
Teaching empathy skills in play settings to children was found effective during the experiment.
