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Emotion recognition/understanding ability in hearing or vision-impaired children: do sounds, sights, or words make

Murray J Dyck1, Charles Farrugia, Ian M Shochet

  • 1School of Psychology, Curtin University of Technology, Australia. m.dyck@curtin.edu.au

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines
|April 2, 2004
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Children with hearing impairments (HI) show broad delays in emotion skills, while those with vision impairments (VI) have specific emotion recognition deficits. These findings highlight the impact of sensory disabilities on socio-emotional development.

Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Special Education
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Background:

  • Sensory disabilities, including hearing impairment (HI) and vision impairment (VI), may affect socio-emotional development in children.
  • Understanding emotion recognition and emotion understanding is crucial for social interaction and development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether children with sensory disabilities experience delays in acquiring emotion recognition and understanding abilities.
  • To compare the emotion-related skills of hearing-impaired, vision-impaired, and non-impaired children.

Main Methods:

  • The study involved younger (6-11 years) and older (12-18 years) hearing-impaired (HI; n=49), vision-impaired (VI; n=42), and non-impaired (NSI; n=72) children.
  • Participants were assessed using the Emotion Recognition Scales (ERS), evaluating recognition of vocal and facial emotions, and emotion understanding.

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  • Verbal abilities were assessed using Wechsler verbal scales for group matching.

    • Main Results:

    • Hearing-impaired children and adolescents demonstrated significant delays across all ERS tasks compared to age-peers.
    • Vision-impaired children and adolescents showed delays specifically in emotion recognition tasks.
    • When matched for verbal ability, HI children performed comparably to controls, while VI children underachieved in emotion recognition but overachieved in emotion vocabulary.

    Conclusions:

    • Vision-impaired children exhibit a specific deficit in emotion recognition.
    • Hearing-impaired children's performance on emotion tasks reflects broader, language-mediated developmental delays.
    • These findings underscore the distinct impacts of different sensory impairments on socio-emotional skill acquisition.