It seems that the field of TOM has gaping research holes. A great deal of research has been carried out of the TOM development from infants to children aged 7 years old. After the age of 7 years, there seems to be a lack of research carried out testing TOM and language correlations. Thus it would be difficult to come to any conclusion regarding language influencing TOM, since the research thus far have been satisfied with the following conclusion – that language becomes autonomous from TOM.

Here we can look at those who were previously unable to acquire language fully because of the lack of certain aspects of TOM (children suffering from Autism). These children were still able to catch up with their peers, in terms of communication. Here, their linguistic competence would make up for their inability to understand mental states of others, by using complex linguistic representation.