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Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Genetics

Background:

  • Children with Down syndrome (DS) often exhibit challenges in recognizing facial expressions.
  • Existing assessments frequently rely on emotional vocabulary, potentially confounding results.
  • This study examines emotion recognition development in DS without relying on lexical knowledge.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the developmental trajectory of facial emotion recognition in children with Down syndrome (DS).
  • To assess emotion recognition abilities longitudinally, independent of emotional vocabulary.
  • To compare the development of emotion recognition in children with DS to matched controls.

Main Methods:

  • A longitudinal study assessed children with DS and those with nonspecific intellectual disability annually over three years.
  • Control groups comprised typically developing children matched for developmental age (DA).
  • Participants identified facial expressions after hearing corresponding vocalizations.

Main Results:

  • Children with DS demonstrated comparable emotion recognition performance to control groups across all annual assessments.
  • Significant improvements in discriminating basic emotions were observed in children with DS.
  • The rate of improvement in emotion recognition was similar between children with DS and their typically developing peers.

Conclusions:

  • Children with Down syndrome develop emotion recognition abilities at a pace similar to typically developing children of the same developmental age.
  • The findings suggest that core emotion recognition skills are not inherently impaired in DS.
  • Emotion recognition development in DS is comparable to peers when assessed without reliance on linguistic components.