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Social-Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Emotion Perception in
Joanna Löytömäki1, Marja-Leena Laakso2, Kerttu Huttunen3,4,5
1Faculty of Humanities/Research Unit of Logopedics, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 1000, 90014, Oulun yliopisto, Finland. joanna.loytomaki@oulu.fi.
Abstract:
Children with neurodevelopmental disorders often have social-emotional and behavioural difficulties. The present study explored these difficulties in children (n = 50, aged 6-10 years) with autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and developmental language disorder. Parents, teachers and therapists evaluated children's social-emotional and behavioural difficulties through a self-devised questionnaire and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Additionally, the children, along with their typically developing age peers (n = 106), completed six emotion discrimination tasks. Analysis revealed some impaired emotion discrimination skills that were predictive for behavioural challenges in daily life and associated with the parent-reported existence of friends. Timely intervention in these children is needed, and it should also include emotion perception training.
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