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Children with cochlear implants (CI) struggle with auditory emotion recognition but improve significantly with visual cues. Integrating visual and audiovisual information is key for their emotional and social development.

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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Audiology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Children with cochlear implants (CI) often experience challenges in auditory processing.
  • Effective emotion perception is crucial for social and emotional development in early childhood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare emotion perception abilities in Mandarin-speaking preschool children with CIs versus normal-hearing peers.
  • To investigate the role of auditory-only, visual-only, and audiovisual modalities in emotion recognition for CI users.

Main Methods:

  • The study included 40 preschool children (3-6 years), split equally between normal-hearing and CI groups.
  • Children identified basic emotions (happiness, anger, sadness, surprise) using auditory, visual, and combined cues in a controlled setting.

Main Results:

  • Children with CIs demonstrated significant difficulties recognizing emotions via auditory cues alone.
  • Performance markedly improved when visual information was integrated, highlighting its compensatory role.

Conclusions:

  • Multisensory approaches, particularly integrating visual and audiovisual information, are vital for educating and supporting children with CIs.
  • These strategies can enhance emotional and social communication skills in children with CIs.
  • Further research with larger, diverse samples is needed to explore cross-modal emotion perception in this population.