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Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 8:3 2003
© 2003 Oxford University Press

Empirical Article

Siblings and Theory of Mind in Deaf Native Signing Children

Tyron Woolfe, Stephen C. Want and Michael Siegal

University of Sheffield

We report a study designed to examine the basis of "theory of mind" (ToM) reasoning in deaf children who are native signers of British Sign Language. The participants were 20 native signers (aged 4-8 years) and their siblings. The children were given a measure of the quality of sibling relations together with a referential communication test concerning physical representations of objects and people. Sibling quality as perceived by siblings predicted children's ToM scores over and above age and referential communication. We conclude that the process of ToM understanding is linked to positive sibling relations that may permit access to knowledge about the inner worlds of beliefs and other mental states.

Correspondence should be sent to Michael Siegal, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TP, United Kingdom (e-mail: m.siegal{at}sheffield.ac.uk)

Received March 26, 2002; revised June 17, 2002; accepted June 17, 2002


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