Salomone, Erica and Bulgarelli, Daniela and Thommen, Evelyne and Rossini-Drecq, Emmanuelle and Molina, Paola (2018) Role of age an IQ in emotion understanding in Autism Spectrum Disorder: implications for educational interventions. European Journal of Special Needs Education.
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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by impairments in social communication and social cognition. Di culties in emotion understanding, from emotion recognition to emotion regulation are common features that can a ect the inclusion process. One outstanding question is the extent to which age and IQ a ect such impairments. The e ect of IQ and age on emotion understanding was estimated in 55 children with ASD aged between 5 and 10 and with IQ ranging from 70 to 130. Emotion understanding and non-verbal cognitive ability were assessed, respectively, with the Test of Emotion Comprehension and the Leiter-R scale. The majority of participants scored signi cantly lower on the TEC compared to the normative sample. Performance compared against norms decreased with age and improved with increasing IQ; children with ‘borderline cognitive functioning’ performed signi cantly worse than children with‘normative cognitive functioning’. Emotion understanding skills in children with ASD are a ected by cognitive level and age. Implications for educational interventions are discussed.
Item Type: | Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article |
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Subjects: | Subjects Allied to Medicine > Others in subjects allied to medicine > Occupational therapy Social studies > Others in social studies > Social studies not elsewhere classified |
Department/unit: | Dipartimento economia aziendale, sanità e sociale > Centro competenze pratiche e politiche sanitarie |
Depositing User: | Emmanuelle Rossini-Drecq |
Date Deposited: | 22 Mar 2018 12:44 |
Last Modified: | 17 Oct 2023 10:00 |
URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/9410 |
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