About the Book :

This book attempts to examine the relationship between the children acquisition of language and their development of theory of mind. With the help of an extensive research on Oriya language and acquisition of mental state vocabulary among Oriya speaking children, it addresses the major issues pertaining to development of a theory of mind and mental state language. It deals with the development of mental-representational language, the role of socio-cultural variables in the acquisition of mental-representational words, and the cognitive as well as academic implications of acquiring a set of mental state words. The book will be of great help to researchers and students from diverse disciplines like early, education, educational psychology, child psychology and psycho-linguistics.

About Author :

Nandita Babu is currently a Reader in Department of Psychology at University of Delhi. She is pursuing research and teaching in various areas such as early childhood development, development of theory of mind and language in children, culture and child development and developmental psychopathology. She was awarded with Common Wealth Scholarship in 1985 for pursuing Doctorate degree at the University of Toronto, Canada while she was working as a lecturer at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. As a faculty at Utkal University (1982-2002), she was actively involved in extension works of early childhood teacher training programmes, child rearing practices, parent training programmes organized by SCERT and UNICEF. She is also associated with organizations like NCERT, DIPR and INCLEN. She has published numerous papers on cognitive and language development in children in various journals of repute and written chapters in books as well.