Extant research suggests autism is associated with a disrupted mirror neuron system vital in development of theory of mind and empathy. ... Following research indicating children with ASD are minimally interested in human faces, individuals with ASD are perplexed by the social and affective aspects of language and the notion of the social world as desirable. ... I noticed the students tended to struggle with their perceptions of how they present during job interviews and, more broadly, with their understanding of how communicative body language is. Based on the theory of a compromised mirror...

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